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Eastport to Calais 30 

Eastport to St. Andrews 18 

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MAP SHOWING THE 



INTERNATIONAL STEAMSHIP CO/S 

ROUTES 

AND coisnsrECTioisrs. 



THE 



Sea Coast [Resorts 



Eastern Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, 
Prince Edward Island, and Cape Breton. 



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PUBLISHED BY THE 

INTERNATIONAL STEAMSHIP COMPANY. 



Tickets and General Information may be obtained at the following Agencies of the Company:— 
E. A. WALDRON GENERAL AGENT, COMMERCIAL WHARF, BOSTON. 

Local Agents. 

Boston, Mass Chas. F. Conn, City Ticket Agent, 207 Washington Street. 

Portland, Me H. P. C. Hersey, Railroad Wharf. 

Eastport, Me A. H. Leavitt, International S. S. Company's Wharf. 

Calais, Me Jas. L. Thompson, Frontier Steamboat Company. 

St. John, N.B C. E. Laechler, Reed's Point Wharf. 



Tickets can be obtained at offices of Southern and Western Lines; the Fall River, Providence, 
Stonington and Norwich lines of steamers; also in New England and the Provinces. 



J. B. COYLE, Manager, E. A. WALDRON, General Agent, 

Portland, Me. Boston, Mass. 

C. H. SANBORN, General Travelling Agent, Boston, Mass. 



PREFACE. 



Recognizing the fact that the space afforded in this book will not 
permit a liberal description of the summer resorts reached by the Inter- 
national Steamship Company and its connections, the writer has endeav- 
ored to portray the route from its western to eastern limit, giving the 
attractions of the water-journey together with an abridged pen-picture of 
the scenes encountered by the voyager in eastern seas, from the port of 
Boston to and beyond the United States boundary. 

This, then, is presented with the hope that whatever is lacking of 

interest and beauty may be discovered by the tourist in person, and that 

the daylight ocean voyage may not be forgotten in planning the holiday 

trip. 

E. A. WALDRON, 

General Agent, 

International S. S. Co. 






TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 

Preface 2 

Chapter I. — The Invitation, introducing the Old North-East — The Interna- 
tional Steamship Line — Its Tourist Facilities — Its Ships 5 

Chapter II. — The St. John Route in Detail — Boston the Starting Point — 
Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay — Eastward, Ho! — The Isles of 
Shoals — Boon Island — Saline Types — Old Orchard and Connecting 
Beaches — The Grand View of the White Mountains — The Harbor Lights 
of Portland 8 

Chapter III. — Portland, Maine — Entrance to its Harbor, the Cape Shore 
and Islands — A War-time Incident — Through the City — Longfellow — 
The Union Station — Train Facilities — A Bit Historical 13 

Chapter IV. — Eastward from Portland — Casco Bay — Harpswell — Half- 
way Rock — Seguin, the Mouth of the Kennebec — Monhegan — Pemaquid 

— The Sea-fight Far Away 19 

Chapter V. — Passamaquoddy, and About There — Phenomenal Tides — As 

a Health Resort — General Greeley's Testimony — A Passamaquoddy Inci- 
dent — Eastport — North Lubec — Cutler — Pembroke — Perry — Dennysville 

— Robbinston — Campobello — Grand jNIanan — St. Andrews 23 

Chapter VI. — The St. Croix River — The Schoodic Lakes — Sporting Possi- 
bilities — The Ascent of the River — Douchet's Island — The Des Monts 
Expedition — The Magaguadavic River and Lake Eutopia — Calais and St. 
Stephen — The Rule of the Road 37 

Chapter VII. — From Eastport to St. John — Bay of Fundy Glimpses — St. 
John — Points of Interest — The "Reversible Cataract" — Historical Pic- 
tures — The River St. John — Its Fishing and Hunting Possibilities — The 
New Brunswick Railway 45 

Chapter VIII. — New Brunswick for Sport — The Salmon Streams, How to 
Reach Them — The Miramichi — The Tobique — Headwaters of the St. 
John — Grand Falls 55 

Chapter IX. — The Northern Province — Intercolonial Railway — Some of 
its Towns — Its Fishing Resorts — Grand Falls of the Nepisiquit — Resti- 
gouche and Metapedia — Lake and River — Provincial Game Laws, and 
Close Time 58 

Chapter X. — Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton — The Garden of Nova 
Scotia — The Passage of the Ice-boats — Summerside, Charlottetown — A 
Cheap Bill of Fare — The Round-about Route — Cape Breton Island — Bras 
D'Or — The Arm of Gold — Geological Wonders — Coal Deposits — The 
Marble Mountain — Louisburg — An Historical Revel 67 

Chapter XI. — The Lower Peninsula of Nova Scotia — Halifax, the Metrop- 
olis of the Province — The Rail Route to the Annapolis Valley ^^ 

Chapter XII. — St. John to Digby, Annapolis, and the Land of Evange- 
line — Annapolis Royal — Grand Pre — The Story of the Acadians — 
Grande Finale Si 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Cape Elizabeth and Portland Head 7 

City of Portland 14 

"White Head and Portland Observatory 17 

Bits of Casco Bay and the Maine Coast 18 

Friar's Head and Lubec » 23 

Around Eastport 26 

Campobello Bits 30 

"Whale Cove, Grand Manan 32 

Grand Manan Pictures 341 

St. Andrews 35 

Passamaquoddy Bay and the St. Croix 36 

Lake Utopia and the Falls of St. George 40 

Passamaquoddy Fishing Boats 43 

Mt. Desert Hills 44 

In St. John Harbor 46 

On St. John River 48 

Near Fredericton, N.B 53 

Head Harbor, Campobello, N.B 54 

On the Restigouche 60 

Lake Metapedia 62 

Frazer's Head on Minas Basin 64 

Pastoral Scene, P. E. Island . . . . ■ 66 

A "Vacation Day 68' 

Strait of Canso from Havvkeskury 71 

Cliffs near Grand Narrows, C.B 74 

Sydney and the Falls near Baddeck 75. 

Point Lepreaux Light 76 

Cape Split, from Baxter's Harbor 79 

Partridge Island 80 

Petit Manan Light 83 

In Grand Pre "Village 87 

"West Quoddy Light 8S 

View from International Steamship Co.'s Dock, Eastport . • • • 93 
St. Andrews and Vicinity 96 




INTRODUCTORY TO THE REGION REACHED BY THE INTERNATIONAL 
STEAMSHIP LINE — THE COMPANY'S SHIPS AND SERVICE. 



" There is a society where none intrude, 
By the deep sea; and music in its roar." 

A N OCEAN VOYAGE in connection with my summer's outing? 
Yes ! An ocean voyage, in palatial steamers, thoroughly staunch 
and of sea-going qualities as complete as are their fine appointments and 
cuisine. 

But first tell me whither will your fancy lead ? Shall it be to the east- 
ward, to the numerous health and pleasure resorts along the coast or in 
the interior of the State of Maine ; or farther still beyond the Interna- 
tional boundary, where lies a vast country under British dominion, full of 
beauty and crowned with a wealth of interest, replete with the blended 
romance, story and tradition connected with the earliest settlement of 
the North American continent? 

A country which gave refuge to the early voyagers from Europe, at a 
time when the Pilgrim Fathers of the Old Colony were in leading strings, 
and now through two centuries presents its peculiar manners, customs 
and civilization as an auxiliary charm to the summer tourist from " The 
States," giving him a taste of Europe only to be found this side the 
Atlantic ; in this quaint Old North-East, this country under the shadow 



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of the Crown, this " Land of Evangehne " and the British Red-coat. 
Novehy adds to the pleasures of the outing, for 

'Tis bv novelty enjoyment lives. 

Therefore, in planning the itinerary for your summer tour, ye pilgrims 
from the heat and dust of cities, bear in mind the water routes offered 
by the International Steamship Company, and follow its pathways 
through Maine-coast waves to the eastern country, or make one of its 
terminals the gateway for reaching your chosen goal. 

The best part of going to sea is keeping near the shore, which presents 
an ever-changing panorama to the view\ This is one of the charms of 
the International Line. Its steamers, running within sight of the coast 
line, introduce its patrons to the many interesting points along shore ; a 
sort of voyage of discovery which includes city, town, village and countrj' ; 
the physical features, capes, bays and promontories, rugged barriers of 
the sea, and last, but not least, the tall beacons which light the shoals 
and harbors. 

There is nothing which inspires the mind of man like the lighthouse, 
which, crowning the rocky headlands along shores, flash their warnings 
one to another and far to sea, thus by their peculiarity of light forming a 
sort of flash and darkness system of telegraphy, which tells the sailor not 
only of the approach to land, but his position also. 

" I lit the lamps in the lighthouse tower, 

For the sun dropped down and the day was dead ; 
They shone like a golden clustered flower — 
Two golden and five red." 

John Quincy Adams says, he never saw these coast-lights in the 
evening without recalling to mind the light Columbus saw flashing from 
shore the night he discovered the New World. 

If there is inspiration to be drawn from them it must occur in the 
passage of the International Steamers on the ocean-voyage from Boston 
Light to Quoddy Head, and farther within the Bay of Fundy, with the 
lights along the North Shore of Massachusetts Bay, Cape Ann, Thatcher's 
Island, Isle of Shoals, Boon Island, Cape Elizabeth, Portland Head, 
Half-Way Rock, Seguin, Monhegan, Pemaquid Point, and a host of 
others intervening. 

In connection with its steamship lines this company has established a 
complete system of tourist routes and rates (see pages 90-95), covering 
all rail and steamboat lines necessary for reaching the summer-resorts of 
Maine, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire, as well as those 
within the Maritime Provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. 



SEA COAST RESORTS. J 

Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton, while the new and growing 
popular resort of Cutler (Maine), Famous Grand Manan, the charming 
Passamaquoddy Bay, resting retreats of Campobello Island and St. 
Andrews-by-the-sea, are reached best by its own line, which continuing 
on to St. John (New Brunswick), and by connecting steamer across the 
Bay of Fundy to the quaint towns of Digby and Annapolis (Nova Scotia), 
in the " Annapolis Basin," finds there the gateway through which the 
traveller reaches all Provincial points. 

The Company, founded in i860, has at the present time in com- 
mission three of the finest steamers in eastern waters, — the "State of 
Maine," "Cumberland," and the " New Brunswick." The two former are 
Bath-built side-wheel craft of 1,600 tons burden, constructed during the 
years 1882 and 1885 respectively, by the ship-building company, modern 
in every particular, and rival the floating palaces of Long Island Sound. 
No expense is spared by the liberal management of the line in keeping 
its steamers up to a high standard of excellency. The metiu and table 
service is unsurpassed. 




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THE ST. JOHN ROUTE IN DETAIL SIGHTS ALONG THE COAST FROM 

BOSTON TO PORTLAND THE ISLES OF SHOALS, 

OLD ORCHARD BEACH, ETC. 



"DOSTON is the grand focal point to which converging lines from All 
-*-^ America concentrate the throng of eastern tourist travel, each 
season growing larger as the manifold attractions which the country holds 
are advertised, and advertise themselves, as no pen can, to the health- 
seeking, pleasure-seeking summer visitor. 

There are rail routes and water routes for again distributing this 
throng, but only one line, the International Steamship Company, offers 
the attraction of a " thro'-by-daylight " sail via Portland. This is a 
distinctive feature. Then, too, the sea voyage has ever been the panacea 
for human ills of the brain-wearied, ennuicd order, so we will fancy the 
tourist — for the outing is to be a search for combined health and 
pleasure — embarked upon one of the good ships of the line, for the 
voyage. Eastward, Ho ! The route skirts the coast for a great part of 
the distance, so there is little fear of nial-de-mer. 

All in good time the steamer bears away, at an hour when the harbor 
scene is brightest, and the points of interest are clearly in view, past Fort 
Independence, with Deer Island, on which are the city institutions of 
charity and the house of correction, and the main land of Winthrop upon 
the left. The seventy-five islands and islets which exist within the encir- 
cling arms of the three — Dorchester, Quincy and Hingham bays, which 
constitute the harbor of "The Hub" — are clustered in the seaward 
landscape. 

Looking toward the city the united Charles and Mystic rivers are seen 
entering the sea, dividing East Boston from the city proper ; while in 
line with the former rises Bunker Hill Monument above the heights of 
Charlestovvn. 

From the city of Boston to the final point of egress from its harbor, 
the outlet of the main ship channel, the distance is about seven miles. 
The passage is filled with interest throughout. After leaving the harbor 
the ship's course is shaped along the north shore of Massachusetts Bay, 
with the tall white beacons, discernible from the decks, standing singly 



SEA COAST RESORTS. 9 

and in doubles so plentifully along this coast, where at night their signal 
fires blaze far across the waters like fallen stars from Heaven, guiding 
the sailor to the hospitable harbors of Swampscott, Marblehead, Salem, 
Gloucester, and a hundred lesser ports, a succession of attractive sea- 
coast cities and towns, loaded with interest, song and story. 

" You may ride in an hour or two if you will, 
From Halibut Point to Beacon Hill, 
With the sea beside you all the way. 
Through pleasant places that skirt the Bay ; 
By Gloucester Harbor and Beverly Beach, 
Salem's old steeples, Nahant's long reach, 
Blue-bordered Swampscott, and Chelsea's wide 
Marshes, laid bare to the drenching tide. 
With a glimpse of Saugus spire in the west. 
And Maiden hills in their dreamy rest." 

Halibut Point is the extreme northern point on Cape Ann, Cape Ann 
the extreme limit of Massachusetts Bay, Beacon Hill the acme of the 
exclusive exclusiveness of the city of Boston. 

The above lines from the pen of Lucy Larcom fitly describe the route 
of the steamer from the wharves of Boston to the limit of Cape Ann, for 
as straight as the chart directs, the course of the steamer has been for 
Thatcher's Island, lying off the eastern point of the cape, midway between 
the ports of Gloucester and Rockport, and proudly bearing the cape 
lights. 

At the entrance to the harbor of Gloucester, where is now a summer 
settlement bearing the name Magnolia, lies the luckless reef of Norman's 
Woe, famous as the scene of Longfellow's poem, "Wreck of the Hes- 
perus." Leaving Thatcher's Island the steamer heads direct for its next 
objective point, the harbor lights of Portland, Maine. 

Now the curving coast line of New Hampshire and of Maine permits 
the ocean voyage ; and between the two points, for a few hours only, the 
steamer passes "out of sight of land." The cruise outside between 
Cape Ann and Portland is varied by the approach and passage of the 
Isles of Shoals, with their color of romance. These islands, a half dozen 
in number, lie in two States, their position directly off the mouth of the 
Piscataqua River, which forms the boundary between New Hampshire 
and Maine, and about nine miles from the coast ; from their position 
there arose a question of jurisdiction, growing out of a most atrocious 
murder committed on Smutty Nose during the year 1873. The murderer 
was finally tried in the Maine courts, and suffered for his crime at 
Thomaston, the site of the Maine State Prison. Other startling crimes 



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have colored the history of the Isles of Shoals. No section of country 
could contribute a larger or more thrilling volume in the records of piracy 
in the New World than these islands. It is certain tliat in the olden 
time they formed the rendezvous of such noted buccaneers as Kidd, 
Dixey Bull and Blackbeard. 

This was a desirable place to refit or repair ships. Troublesome 
questions and questionable appearances were avoided, as the pirate craft 
lay sheltered in the roads between these high headlands, while their 
crews found shelter amid the rocky fortresses ashore. To relate the 
tales of wreck and ruin wrought by the pirate kings who have cruised to 
the Isles of Shoals to bury their ill-gotten treasure among the rocks, or 
the recital of the fearful sights and sounds which have met those whose 
hardihood permitted the search for the hidden wealth, would fill a \'olume 
and satisfy the most hungry sensationalist of the times. 

Star Island, one of New Hampshire's possessions, bears a monument 
erected in 1864 to the memory of Captain John Smith of early colonial 
fame, and White Island bears the warning light of the Shoals. 

Boon Island, a lonely, desolate rock with a tall beacon, lies some 
distance east of the Isles of Shoals, directly off the coast of Maine, some 
twelve miles distant from the historic town of York. As we pass it 
to-day one can scarcely credit the story of the wreck of the Nottingham 
and the terrible scenes of cannibalism among her crew, who were held 
prisoners by the waves upon the wild rock during twenty-four days in 
December, 181 1. Wonder not then at the number of the coast lights 
which warn the sailors of to-day against a fate so dire. 

But now a bountiful dinner is being served within the spacious saloon, 
at which there is always a merry company, and after which there is time 
for a delightful siesta upon the promenade deck, in easy steamer chairs, 
where, fanned by the salt breath of the sea, with book on lap, one may 
lazily pass the time, or curiously study the queer saline types of humanity 
to be met always in the passage of the Northern New England coast. 

Engage such a one in conversation, and you are repaid by tales of the 
coast. He knows every bay and headland from Boston Light to Quoddy 
Head, and farther east to the "Grand Banks" of Newfoundland, of 
marvelous catches and prodigious bags of game ; for your old salt is a 
born gunner, with sea-fowl his lawful prize. A life by the sea begets a 
spirit of sturdy independence, therefore he is a political economist of no 
mean order, indeed, the student of human nature can find no better field 
in which to pursue his studies than on the coast line of New England. 
Happily he will not be slow to discover the kindly side to the character 
of these quaint old salts. 



SEA COAST HESORTS. II 

Now the ship again approaches the coast and one sees the long Hne of 
Old Orchard Beach, with its mammoth hotels. Just west of Old Orchard's- 
broad sweep, as may be plainly seen from the deck, the curving coast 
extends seaward to Biddeford Pool, at the mouth of the Saco River. 
Between this point and the "Two Lights" on Cape Elizabeth's shore 
extend in one continuous line numerous beaches which form the rallying- 
place for many summer guests. 

They may be considered environments of Portland, being reached many 
times daily by a half-hour rail ride from the city, or by carriage ride over 
delightful shore roads beside the sounding sea. They are, in their order, 
Old Orchard, Pine Point, Scarborough and Higgins' Beaches, with Prout's 
Neck, a narrow peninsula, as its name implies, extending far into the bay 
at a point where the Nonesuch River and its estuary forms the only 
break in this great stretch of sand. 

These form a succession of the grandest cooling-off places which 
Nature has provided for a long-suffering public. To one who delights 
in the ocean — and who does not? — they conjure up pleasant memories 
of gradually sloping beach of the whitest sea-sand, washed continually 
by giant breakers, among which sport a throng of bathers in every non- 
descript costume known to that gay pastime. 

Two score hotels, large and small, line the beaches, facing seaward, 
where orchestras, hops and fashionable doings are the order of the day 
and night among three thousand guests. 

It is while the steamer is passing this point that in a clear day the 
passengers are treated to the fairest view of the distant White Mountains 
of New Hampshire to be had from any equally distant point. 

This view from the sea is particularly striking. There are other and 
nearer elevations which are ofttimes confounded with the White Moun- 
tains by strangers to this region, but the scene which these everlasting 
hills here present once seen is never forgotten nor miscalled. 

Mt. Washington is ninety and odd miles distant in an air line from the 
city of Portland, yet the whole chain, of which Washington forms the 
highest and grandest elevation, stands out in individual distinction. They 
may be seen again at a point after leaving the city, but the view is 
incomparable to this. 

After passing Old Orchard the twin beacons of the "Two Lights" 
upon the Cape Elizabeth shore come into view, then " Portland Head " 
light marking the entrance to the first harbor entered by the steamer in, 
the daylight run from Boston. The noble headlands of this shore, bold,, 
storm-defying, rugged types of Maine's rugged coast, have formed the- 



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subject of many a grand marine painting, and given inspiration to artist 
and poet. 

" Even at this distance I can see the tides, 
Upheaving, break unheard along the base ; 
A speechless wrath that rises and subsides, 
In the white lip, and tremor of the face. 

" ' Sail on ! ' it says, ' sail on ' ye stately ships. 
And with your fleeting bridge the oceans span , 
Be mine'to guard this light from all eclipse, 
Be yours to bring man nearer unto man.' " 

A passing incident in connection with the "Two Lights" may here 
prove of interest. Just within tlieir shadow, upon the rocks surrounding 
Broad Cove, Cape Elizabeth, the good ship Bohemian, an iron English 
mail steamer of the Allan Line, for whom Portland forms the winter port 
during the close time of the St. Lawrence River by ice, struck and was 
torn in pieces by the waves one stormy April morning of the year 1862. 

Many lives were lost upon this the last occasion of disaster to a passenger 
steamer, attended by loss of life, which has visited the eastern shore. 

Can many transportation lines, carrying the traffic which offers upon 
these favorite water routes, show a better record than thirty years without 
loss of life to its thousands carried yearly ? 




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PORTLAND, MAINE, THE BIRTHPLACE OF LONGFELLOW A PICTURESQUE 

HARBOR AT SUNDOWN — THROUGH THE CITY 

ROUTES TO NOTED TOURIST RESORTS. 

" Often I think of the beautiful town 

That is seated by the sea ; 
Often in thought go up and down 
The pleasant streets of that dear old town, 

And my youth comes back to me." 



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'HE entrance to Portland harbor, after passing the hght at Portland 
Head, is through the broad ship channel with the Cape Shore upon 
the left, and Cushing's Island forming the right extreme. 

An extended view of Portland's summer hotels and cottages may be had 
from this point. The Cape Shore is lined with the summer homes of 
the city's business men, many of them most imposing subjects of modern, 
architecture. This shore also bears pleasant hotels, the Cape Cottage 
and Ocean House for example, many boarding-houses, and the coast 
defences of the city whose sunset gun speeds the departing day. 

Upon Cushing's, to the right, rises the broad roof and dome of "The 
Ottawa," the finest hotel in the harbor, new in 1889, to replace one 
destroyed the previous season. Beautiful cottages also adorn Cushing's, 
which is the most exclusive of Casco's isles. 

Immediately after rounding the point of this island the city bursts 
upon the view from its commanding position upon the peninsula heights 
three miles distant. 

The view from seaward in the approach to the city is incomparable, 
and is, indeed, the only point of view which shows Portland to advantage. 
The time of arrival at this point is most opportune for sight-seeing. 
The sun, yet well up in the heavens directly above the city, behind 
whose roofs and spires it sinks into the west with most charming cloud 
effects of ever-varying hue. 

The harbor scene is most attractive, for the mammoth steamer is now 
in the path of the many excursion boats plying between the city and its 
cottage-covered suburban islands. Among them our ship seems colossal, 
and we are, for the passing moment, the centre of attraction to the gay 
groups who throng the decks of the smaller craft, which now are dancing. 



SEA COAST RESORTS. 1$ 

in the huge swell of our wake. Thousands visit "The Islands" daily, 
a fleet of ten boats making constant trips ; cottages and club-houses, 
innumerable almost, shelter the summer population, while the white tents 
of campers are anchored in every available spot. 

Steam and sailing craft of every style are met or passed in the ascent 
of the harbor — a harbor which bears this distinction — let us turn from 
descriptive to incident, and relate it. 

This busy harbor formed the theatre of action for the only invasion of 
a northern port by the enemy during the war of the rebellion ; when the 
revenue cutter Caleb Gushing was "cut out" from under the guns of the 
now obsolete fort upon the right, by an armed force, who, at midnight — 
1863 — overpowered her crew and succeeded in getting away with the 
craft, an armed sailing schooner of modest size. 

No doubt the Gushing would have been turned into a privateer by 
her captors, had not her absence been discovered at daybreak from the 
observatory — mark the building, in form like the coast lights we have 
been passing — which crowns the eastern extremity of the city, and from 
which all vessels entering the port are signaled. Pursuit was made in two 
steamers, the Forest Gity and the Ghesapeake. The latter, of the 
Portland- New York line, was herself afterward captured on the high sea 
by a band of confederates, who joined the ship in New York as passen- 
gers, took possession and sailed to an English port. 

These two steamers pursued the cutter, overtook her becalmed about 
twenty miles from shore, where the cutting-out party, with the crew as 
prisoners, abandoned the ship after tiring her magazine, blowing the 
trim little schooner into fragments. 

Through the lively phases of the harbor scene the steamer makes its 
way along the complete water front of the city, with ghmpses of the 
elm-shaded streets which have won for it the sobriquet of "The Forest 
City," to its berth at railroad wharf, foot of State Street. 

It is but a short walk up this broad avenue. State Street, to the street- 
cars for " down town ; " carriages also are awaiting the arrival. The 
cars pass all hotels, through the principal thoroughfares of retail trade, 
Congress and Middle Streets, to the wharves of the island steamers. 
Ignoring the street-cars yet for a few moments, however, a quarter mile 
walk through State Street straight from the steamer, one of the handsomest 
old avenues that the world affords, brings one to State Street Square, 
which contains a fine bronze statue of the poet Longfellow, the first 
erected in his honor, save the bust in Westminster Abbey. 

We shall see much of Longfellow here at his birthplace and early 
home, and again in the voyage eastward to the country and people he 



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has immortalized in that American classic, " Evangeline." Taking 
street-cars in this square a ride of five minutes' duration brings the 
traveller to the new and palatial Union Passenger Railway Station. This 
is the gateway to interior Maine, and the White Mountains, via the Maine 
Central Railroad, whose trains are replete with every convenience of 
travel, and each season bear a host of summer visitors to the hunting 
and fishing resorts of Rangeley and Moosehead lakes, and whose 
Mountain Division reaches the White Mountain resorts through the 
wonderland of the Crawford Notch. 

Here it is possible to take a train with Pullman sleepers at eleven 
o'clock each night of the week, which shall bear the visitor to Bar 
Harbor and the many fashionable resorts on Mt. Desert Island in season 
for breakfast next morning. Here also numerous trains depart daily for 
Poland Spring, with its superb hotel, the eastern Ponce de Leon, as well 
as for all interior and coast towns of the State of Maine. 

The "Union" is between the Maine Central and Boston and Maine 
railroads, who use together this beautiful and commodious station, to 
the mutual advantage of themselves and patrons. The Boston and 
Maine trains make frequent trips to the line of beaches which we saw 
from the steamer just beyond the Cape Shore, for Old Orchard direct, 
and for Scarboro Beach, Pine Point and Prout's Neck, from Scarboro 
and Pine Point stations, where carriage conveyance is in waiting for all 
beach hotels. 

It is but twelve miles from the city of Portland to Old Orchard Beach, 
and the train delivers its passengers directly in the midst of one of the 
liveliest seashore scenes in the world. The beach is but a hundred yards 
distant, its great combing surf line making itself known at once. The 
largest hotels upon the coast of Maine are here, and invite a sojourn. 

Old Orchard ranks with Cape May and Atlantic City in popularity 
with summer guests. It may be reached on the day of departure from 
Boston, in season for a six o'clock tea, by the ocean day-line in con- 
nection with trains at the Portland Union Station. 

At the farther extremity of the city, reached also by streef-cars, stands 
the station of the Grand Trunk Railway, whose trains offer another route 
to Poland Spring, to the Rangeley Region, and to the White Mountains. 

Altogether Portland offers a variety of routes for reaching the many 
tourist points within the State, to which the water journey, the daylight 
sail from Boston, has been the breezy prelude. 

Founded in 1632, under the Indian title Machigonne, the now city 
of Portland during the earlier days of setdement was the scene of many 
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three bloody assaults the settlement finally, in the year 1689, succumbed 
to these Indian attacks, and those who escaped death by the tomahawk 
and arrow fled, leaving the deserted ruin of fort and home to bird and 
wild beast for a period of twenty-five years, when a number of sturdy 
veterans from the disbanded garrisons along the coast made their homes 
here, and when the Indians once more came down to pay their compli- 
ments they found a line of fortified streets and strong guards at every 
point. 

The town now bore the name of Falmouth and enjoyed a flourishing 
commerce with the West Indies, when disaster again visited in the form 
of Captain Mowatt's British fleet, which sailed into its harbor one bright 
morning during the Revolutionary period — 1775 — and after a destruc- 
tive bombardment of eight hours landed a party of red coats who fired 
all buildings spared by the red-hot shots of the ships. Falmouth again 
sank in ruins, yet to appear again, and as the reconstructed city of Port- 
land go through a third fiery ordeal upon the "Glorious 4th," 1866,. 
when a carelessly thrown fire-cracker started a conflagration, which, 
burning with fatal steadiness for sixteen hours, destroyed ten millions of 
property. 

To-day, with a population approaching forty thousand, and a valua- 
tion of as many million of dollars, four daily newspapers, half a dozen 
national banks and thirty odd churches, surrounded by resting retreats 
of sea and shore, silvery-sanded beach and inland lake, this beautiful 
city, a carriage drive about which would amply repay a visit, whose 
large, well-kept hotels hold out a welcome to all, offers attractions to 
sojourn within its borders, or among its surroundings, which can but fill 
the time with pleasure. 



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EASTWARD AGAIN FROM PORTLAND — A CHARMING TWILIGHT RUN ALONG 

A HISTORIC COAST THE MOUTH OF THE KENNEBEC, 

MONHEGAN ISLAND, ETC. 

'~pHE exit of the steamer from Portland harbor is, when the tide will 
allow, through the famous "White Head Passage," a narrow water- 
way formed by the approaching shores of Peak's and Cushing's islands. 
Upon the latter, and so near that, to use a nautical phrase, one could 
throw a biscuit to the steamer's deck, rises the towering height of White 
Head, one of the finest examples of the rugged coast of Maine existing. 
It recalls the lines — 

And many a homesick tear is shed 

By wanderers far away, 
As mem'ry reverts to " Old White Head," 

And the islands of Casco Bay. 

Upon the left Peak's Island, so close aboard that the music of its 
bands in pavilion and summer garden is borne to the steamer's deck, 
for this is the "Coney Island of the East," is the scene of merry revel. 
At unfavorable times of tide the passage out is through the ship channel, 
as we entered, and skirting the seaward shore of these islands. 

These are the scenes which the inland traveller wots not of, and more 
follow in succession during the three hours of daylight which remains 
after leaving the Forest City. 

Here are some of them : The passage through White Head leads 
directly to the sea, and the course is shaped just outside the fringe of 
islands, three hundred and sixty-five of which, by popular fable, are 
supposed to cluster within the encircling arms of Casco Bay, between 
the twin hght upon Cape Elizabeth and the mouth of the Kennebec. 

Unlike the islands in the harbor of Boston, arid, treeless and 
unadorned, Casco's Isles are forest crowned, with a primeval growth of 
pines and other northern woods, while, especially in the vicinity of 
Portland, they are adorned by the hand of man combined with Nature, 
and bear striking examples of summer architecture. Longfellow calls 
them — 

"The islands that were the Hesperides 
Of all my boyish dreams." 
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The cruise brings them into view, and with them the long peninsulas. 
and deep indenting bays of Harpswell, as the steamer plows merrily 
along. 

"Half-way Rock" — half-way between Portland and the Kennebec — 
is passed at this juncture ; its tall light, a perfect Eddystone in its solitude, 
and its whistling buoy accompaniment in the foreground directly in the 
path of the steamer, which passes outside. Upon the mainland the 
shores of Old Falmouth rise to the elevation called Black-Strap Hill, — 
why Black-Strap tradition sayeth not, — which bears upon its summit: 
a spindle erected by the United States Coast Survey as a land mark, 
to aid in their research. Travellers, strangers probably from the " Prairie 
States," have mistaken this for Mt. Washington. It is safe to assert that 
none who have made the journey by the ocean day-line from Boston, and 
witnessed the view from our strategic point, will be likely to confuse this 
mole-hill of Maine with the monarch of New Hampshire. 

This will be a good point for reckoning — Item : Bring your field 
glasses and get the points of the compass fixed like a true sailor. Now, 
with the whistling buoy in direct line with Half-way Rock, pointing: 
north, the whole panorama of Casco Bay is explained. 

Just to the east of north the long peninsula of Harpswell projects far 
into the sea, island-surrounded upon all sides. To the west the larger 
islands of Chebeague, Long, The Diamonds, Peak's and Cushing's in 
succession, surround the harbor of Portland, shutting the city from view. 
The shores of Falmouth, Cumberland, Yarmouth and Freeport form the 
horizon. 

After leaving Half-way Light, Martinicus Rock is the next objective 
point, in search of which the steamer soon rounds Cape Small Point, to 
find " Sequin " marking the approach to the mouth of the Kennebec, 
which noble river, famous world-wide for its ice product, flows from the 
clear depths of Moosehead Lake, in Northern Maine, until joining the 
waters of the Androscoggin, second only to itself, and forming the outlet 
of the Rangeley Lakes; the two from Merry-meeting Bay — suggestive 
name ! — just above the coast line flow as one to find the sea at this 
point. 

Its estuary forms the harbor of Boothbay, whose islands, Mouse and 
Squirrel, are summer-populated by hundreds of campers, cottagers and 
boarders. Boothbay Harbor forms the rendezvous of many a yachting 
party from metropolitan cities to and from eastern points. 

We have met this white-winged craft, many of them in the voy- 
age from Boston, for they are ever present in these summer waters, 
and include the entire ensemble of pleasure craft, from the tiny sloop to> 



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Stately schooners, cup-winners, with the floating palaces of the Bennetts, 
Goulds and Astors ; for all favor this picturesque coast, each season 
cruising Eastwartl, Ho ! 

Leaving Sequin, with its stately light, one of the many beacons of 
which Whittier says : 

" F"rom gray sea fog, from icy drift, 
From peril and from pain ; 
The home-bound fisher greets thy lights 
O hundred-harbored Maine !" 

Monhegan next comes to the front. O for space to pick up some of 
the many threads of history connected with the steamer's surroundings 
as she plows along this coast, events dating back prior to the landing of 
the Pilgrims, for it was Samoset, a chieftain of Monhegan, who, at Ply- 
mouth, met the Puritans with the English words, " Welcome ! White- 
men ! " 

Monhegan is the most famous island on the New England coast ; it 
appears upon the oldest charts in existence, and to it the earhest voyagers 
to the Western Continent converged. Champlain sailed the Des Monts 
expedition to this point in 1604. Weymouth was here in 1607, trading 
v.'ith the Indians of Pemaquid. Pemaquid, the ancient fortified city, 
which to this day forms the goal of historian and antiquarian, the Pompeii 
of the West. These delve in her paved streets and unearth her old 
fortifications, enthusiastically recalling scenes which have added pages 
to our early history. 

Between Monhegan and the mainland of Pemaquid Point was fought 
that desperately contested sea-fight between the Enterprise and Boxer, 
familiar to every school-boy of the land. The English brig Boxer had 
been fitted out with the express purpose of engaging the Enterprise, an 
American brig of her own class and armament. The Enterprise had 
seen ser\-ice in the wars with Algiers, and now called home by the War 
of 181 2, was given a cruising ground along the coast of Maine to keep 
watch for the enemy's privateers. 

Decatur had been her commander, Init she was now taken to sea by 
Lieutenant Burrows, an intrepid seaman, of whom it was believed he 
would die sooner than surrender. After terrorizing the seacoast villages, 
and firing a fisherman or two, the Boxer cast anchor Saturday, September 
4, 1 8 14, in Pemaquid Bay. 

On tlie morning of the Sabbath, calm, clear and beautiful as a Sep- 
tember morning in these seas can be, the lookout from the Boxer descried 
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all was activity on board the Englishman, who, dropping a few shotS' 
upon the village and old Fort Frederick by way of compliment, up 
anchor and away to a point about three miles from shore and then 
stripped to fighting canvas. The Enterprise coming up noted the 
invitation, and cleared for action. 

In expectancy of this event both ships had been prepared by their 
crews, rubbed down and polished off with as much care as a pugilist 
receives from his trainers ; so earnest were those of the Boxer, that her 
colors were nailed to the mast, an act which doubtless cost some lives in 
the event which followed. 

The fight lasted forty minutes ; and so closely were the ships engaged 
that after the first broadsides nothing could be seen of the combatants,, 
save the flash of the guns through the thick veil of smoke which enveloped 
all. When the fire slackei*?ed the Enterprise was seen to be the victor. 
Both commanders were killed outright ; and on the 7th the Enterprise,, 
with the Boxer in tow, set sail for Portland, where equal honors were 
bestowed upon the dead. Wrapped each in his country's colors, the 
dead captains were borne to their final resting place in the ancient 
cemetery, under the shadow of the observatory which we saw crowning 
the eastern extremity of the city of Portland as we entered its harbor. 

The roar of combat was plainly heard through the Sabbath stillness of 
the Forest City, and Longfellow refers to it thus in his poem, " My Lost 

Youth " : 

" I remember the sea-fight far away, 
How it thundered o'er the tide ! 
And the dead captains, as they lay 
In their graves, o'erlooking tlie tranquil bay, 
Where they together died." 

Through scenes, the theatre of such events, the steamer makes its 
way, during the long twilight of summer, and now as the coast lights- 
beam through the gathering gloom one by one her voyagers " seek the 
seclusion that the stateroom grants," where, surrounded by the invigor- 
ating air, blown from the wide salt sea, amid odors such as no landsman 
knows, they sink to rest, wooed by a quiet broken, yet not disturbed, by 
the dull, far away throb of the engines and the wash of the waves. There- 
are no noisy landings, with their accompanying discharge of freight, to- 
disturb refreshing slumber, which may continue until the Landing at 
Eastport at 7.30 next morning. 




PASSAMAQUODDY AND ABOUT THERE EASTPORT AND ITS SURROUNDINGS 

HOW TO REACH GRAND MANAN, CAMPOBELLO, 

LUBEC, ETC. A SUMMER CAMP. 

T TNRUFFLED Passamaquoddy Bay lies sheltered from the sea by a 
mighty chain of islands, all British territory, for this is the eastern 
extremity of the United States. 

Its shores and islands bear numerous summer resorts, which possess 
enough of individuality to warrant a separate and detailed description. 
At favorable times of tide, when it " serves," to use a nautical phrase, 
the route of the International steamers into Passamaquoddy is through 
"The Narrows," formed by Lubec, a white, wooded town upon the left 
and the long island of Campobello to the right. The entrance to this 
channel is past the light at " Quoddy Head," which marks the eastern 
limit of the United States of America. 

At other seasons of the tide one must circumnavigate Campobello, 
and approach the American town of Eastport through British waters. 
The magnificent sweep of Passamaquoddy Bay must be seen to be 
thoroughly appreciated. Its encircling shores form a horizon seventy- 




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five miles in circumference, all of which from some one of its many 
elevations, as the Chamcook Mountains above St. Andrews, is brought 
into one view. It forms an arm of the Bay of Fundy, and partakes of 
its high tides, while its breezy summited islands exclude its fogs. 

These phenomenal tides rise and fall twice, daily in Passamaquoddy, 
measuring between thirty and forty feet, while to the eastward they go 
still higher. The rivers which find the sea within the Bay of Fundy are 
said to part of the time run up hill, part down, as the tide swells them. 

There are i^\N islands in the Bay of Passamaquoddy after passing 
through the outer fringe which shelters its quiet waters. One of these, 
Minister's Island, which lies off the peninsula of St. Andrews, fitly 
exemplifies these tides. Between this island and the mainland there 
exists at the flood an exact half mile of clear water. At the ebb tide 
one can ride or walk, dry shod, over a bar of shingle connecting the 
two, twenty feet below the level of the sea at high water. 

Passamaquoddy is the ideal spot for summer sojourn. Beside the 
historical interest, blending romance with the beautiful in nature, it has 
a peculiar charm for health-seekers in its pleasant air. There is no fog, 
the encircling islands shut out that unwelcome visitor from the sea ; the 
powerful tides remove all refuse far from shore twice each day, and last, 
but not least, there is the assurance given by General A. W. Greeley, 
chief of the United States Signal Service, which has such a bearing on 
the subject of climatic perfection in this locality that we quote it. 

In an article in "Scribner's," entitled "Where shall we spend our 
summers?" after detailing what people are led to expect from reading 
summer literature descriptive of this and that resort, General Greeley 
says: '•'There is possibly one place in the United States where such 
conditions obtain, — a bit of country of about forty square miles at the 
extreme southwestern part of the United States, in which San Diego is 
situated ; but even here, perhaps once in two or three years, the sultry 
blasts from the Mojave Desert pass over the low mountain range and 

parch this favored district By a singular contrast the second 

favored spot as to summer weather is the extreme northeastern point of 

the United States, — Eastport, Maine At Eastport, the prevailing 

summer winds are from the south, which makes the weather delightful." 
General Greeley, in the charts which accompany his article, places the mean 
daily temperature at 68° during the entire heated term. There is another 
phase of summer weather which is of equal importance with the question 
of temperature. This is a humidity of atmosphere. Again we quote 
Gen. Greeley, whose chart shows that the belt denotmg the dryest atmos- 
phere passes through Passamaquoddy Bay. He says : " It is further of 



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importance to note that the quantity of vapor per cubic foot decreases 
as one goes northward, and the absoUite amount of water in the air in 
New Jersey is fifty per cent greater than in Maine, while the quantity 
along the Atlantic seacoast from Hatteras south is nearly twice as great. 
... A dry summer climate is assumed to be one where the atmosphere 
contains five and one-half grains or less of aqueous vapor to each cubic 
foot (our belt has only five grains), and on this basis it is safe to recom- 
mend the northern half of New England and New York." Gen. Greeley 
can be considered an impartial writer, having no climatic wares to dispose 
of. In naming Eastport, he named the extreme Hmit of his country and 
consequently of his research ; therefore as Eastport, so Passamaquoddy 
and about there. 

A PASSAMAQUODDY INCIDENT. 

Immediately following the California gold fever of 1849, a far-reaching, 
notable enterprise was inaugurated in Passamaquoddy. 

In 1850-51 the steamer S. B. Wheeler, a side-wheeled wooden craft, 
in size and tonnage resembling the " Rose Standish " of the Frontier 
Steamboat Line, whose steamers now ply the waters of the bay and 
river St. Croix, was built at Eastport. Up the river St. Croix, at the 
towns of Calais, Maine, and St. Stephen, New Brunswick, which we shall 
see later, on opposite banks of the river, was built upon the English side 
the barque Fanny, with an object in view of curious nature. 

The hull of this vessel was towed to Eastport, the captain of the 
''Cumberland," one of the International fleet, — perchance our very 
ship — forming one of the crew of the tow. 

Here she was sunk, after removing the entire stern of the craft, for in 
her construction this part had been secured by screw bolts for this 
express purpose, and while submerged the steamer was floated within 
and secured by ballast and freight tightly packing the entire hold of the 
barque. Then the Fanny was raised, her stern once more secured, her 
hold freed from water, her masts stepped, two of them passing directly 
through the steamer, her rigging and sails supplied, and out of Passama- 
quoddy she sailed " 'round The Horn " to San Francisco. 

Arrived there, the same process was carried out for the removal of the 
steamer, which, reconstructed, sailed for years the Sacramento river, the 
first river steamer in California waters. 

No part of the steamer was removed when she was engulfed within 
the barque, save her funnel and walking-beam. She furnished accom- 
modations for the passengers taken out in this way, and possibly some 
forty-niners of the Pacific coast may yet remain of those who made the 
voyage in this novel manner. 



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EASTPORT, MAINE. 



Eastport, prominent upon the school maps as the extreme eastern, 
settlement under the American flag, prominent in history of old-time 
boundary disputes, and the home of the American sardine, is situated 
upon Moose Island, at the entrance of Passamaquoddy Bay, separated 
by a wooden bridge twelve hundred feet in length from the mainland' 
town of Perry. 

It is a town of white wooden buildings, a big hotel flying the x^merican 
flag, an exceedingly peaceful-looking arsenal, a fort and a United States 
CoaUng Station. 

Along its water front the many wharves are occupied by numerous, 
factories, where minute herring are cooked in salad oil, packed in cans 
exactly resembling the conventional sardine box, and placed on the- 
market, a close imitation of the imported article, whose market price 
they have greatly cheapened. Fourteen of these sardine factories lie- 
within the radius of a circle drawn one-half mile from the post-office. 
They simply line the water front. Previous to the fire of 1886 there- 
were twenty-one factories in Eastport, with an average capacity of twenty 
hogsheads of uncooked fish per day, representing some 800,000 boxes. 
Of course, fish in quantities to allow this were not to be had every day^ 
but during the season, May 15th to December ist, enormous quantities, 
of the fish are caught in the weirs which surround the inlets to the bay, 
and cured. Fish that, going in as herring, undergo a metamorphosis, 
coming out sardines. This is a specialty of the eastern shore, in which. 
Eastport bears the palm. 

As is customary in smaller towns, every modern event in Eastport 
dates from "the fire," a conflagration that, in 1886, swept the larger part 
of the town into ruins. The effect of the destruction has, on the whole, 
been beneficial to its appearance, as the new buildings are greatly superior 
to the old, and an efficient system of water-works has since been intro- 
duced, while a Government building, — custom house, — for which Con- 
gress has appropriated $100,000, is in course of erection. This town 
forms the principal trade centre of the frontier. "The Quoddy " is its. 
leading hotel. 

Here the International Steamship Company has made special pro- 
visions for traffic and travel, in its large depot built since the fire. At' 
this point its steamers land, and by connecting water routes by other- 
boats of lighter draught, the traveller is carried to the resorts in Passama- 
quoddy and its environs, to Campobello and famous Grand Manan, to- 
St. Andrews, and the towns of the St. Croix River. The Passamaquoddy 
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above Eastport, add a picturesque element to the life of the town. Their 
bark canoes still ply the waters of the bay in their periodical visits to the 
several summer resorts. They may, with profit to themselves and the 
sportsman, serve as guides in canoeing, hunting, and fishing excursions in 
the vicinity, from their aboriginal knowledge of woodcraft and the famous 
lurking places of fish and game. 

NORTH LUBEC. 

Adjoining Eastport, reached by steam ferry across the harbor, lies the 
town of Lubec, approaching Campobello, and reaching northward in a 
series of long peninsulas, characteristic of this rugged eastern shore. 

It is upon one of these sea-girt necks of land, all surrounded by Cobs- 
cook Bay, and near neighbor to the famous resorts of Passamaquoddy, 
that the site for the permanent summer encampment of the Young 
Men's Christian Association has been chosen. 

Two years ago, a committee was selected by the New England Associ- 
ation to search out and report upon an advantageous site. North Lubec 
was chosen, and unanimously endorsed by the annual convention. 

The initial encampment was held August loth to 25th, 1889. It was 
a complete success. Without exception all were pleased with the selec- 
tion, and the continuance of the encampment at North Lubec was 
assured. 

Leading Association men have since purchased a large tract of land 
for the purpose of developing the encampment. A large hotel has been 
erected, in which ample accommodations for visitors are provided. 
Bowling alleys, tennis courts and base-ball field afford opportunities for 
amusement and exercise. 

Thus, amid the health-giving breezes from the sea, this association 
has a rallying-place, after the plan of the Maine Chautauquans upon 
another border, that between Maine and New Hampshire, at Fryeburg. 

CUTLER, MAINE. 

It is only of late that Cutler Harbor has come to the front as a sum- 
mer resort, from its secluded position on the coast of Maine. It lies 
midway between Mt. Desert and Passamaquoddy in a sheltered bay, 
which has proved so attractive that a syndicate of gentlemen have pur- 
chased the lands about its shores, built a modern summer hotel upon 
improved sanitary conditions, and laid out their lands into sites for 
numerous mansions, cottages and tastefully planned parks. 

Go where you will, by land or water, by carriage or sail, or rambling 
along the shore or in the woods, objects of mterest continually meet the 



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eye. Prominent among these are the Natural Bridge, Cross Island, the 
Norse Wall and Lake, the foot-prints on the rocks, caves, lakes, streams 
and water-falls, the liglithouse and life-saving station, the mineral springs 
and meadow views. It offers all the attractions of the secluded coast 
resort, " far from the madding crowd," its little gem of a harbor receiving 
many white-winged yachts during the season which bring hither many 
summer guests. 

PEMBROKE, PERRY, DENNVSVILLE AND ROBBINSTON. 

Upon the western shore of Passamaquoddy, above Lubec, lies the 
town of Perry, containing Pleasant Point, a village of the Passamaquoddy 
tribe of Indians. Pembroke adjoins Perry upon the west, and Rob- 
binston lies just above upon the St. Croix. 

These are all coast towns bordering the bay and river, with a multiplicity 
of projecting peninsulas and encroaching bays, affording fine salt-water, 
fishing, while their forests abound with game. 

CAMPOBELLO. 

This Elysium of the summer tourist is his first resort " over the bor- 
der," in reaching which, from Eastport, one and one-half miles by steam 
ferry, he crosses that imaginary line, the International boundary. The 
island is picturesque with coves and cliffs, winding roads and woods, a 
series of delightful surprises to the uninitiated. One may remain out of 
doors the entire day without sense of fatigue or heat, so clear, bracing 
and cool is the sea atmosphere. Fog never remains the entire day, and 
during the last five seasons there has been not more than three days 
each summer month in which it was impossible to walk or drive, while 
the beauty of the landscape is wonderfully increased by the shutting, 
down and lifting of the mists. 

"A wind came up cut of the sea, 
And said, O mists, make room for me !" 

Campobello and Deer islands are the larger of the islands which shut 
out the sea from Passamaquoddy. Campobello has been chosen before 
its mates as an island summer resort from its beauty and grandeur of 
situation. 

Upon its shores begins the wild scenery of the Bay of Fundy, a name 
sonorous as its waves, which wash the beetling cliffs upon the outer shore 
of Campobello. The fine model hotel, Ty'n-y-coed, is happily situated 
upon one of these cliffs, seventy-five feet above the level of the sea, and 
near the water's edge. It is provided with all the comforts of a refined 




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home, and is beautifully furnished throughout. Its seavv'ard view embraces 
a wide sweep of ocean, broken only by the purple cliffs of Grand Manan ; 
shoreward the hill\' towns of Eastport and Lubec are in the view, which 
also holds the Denny's River and the famous St. Croix with varied vistas of 
Passamaquoddy reaches through forest-crowned islands that intercept it. 

Campobello partakes with Eastport in the history of old-time boundary 
disputes, and British occupancy of all the islands in the bay during the 
four years, 1814-1S, that all remained under martial law. The English 
claimed that all belonged to Great Britain, as much so, to quote one of 
their commissioners, as Northamptonshire, an inland county of England. 

It had been a muddle since the treaty of 17S3, at the close of the 
Revolutionary war — a muddle which required thirty-five years of diplo- 
matic squabbling to clear. Finally, under an article of the treaty of 
Ghent, concluded December 24, 18 14, two commissioners were appointed 
to settle the vexed question of ownership ; their final report states " that 
Moose Island, Dudley Island, and Frederick Island, in the Bay of 
Passamaquoddy, do belong to the United States, and that all the other 
islands in the bay and the island of Grand Manan, in the Bay of Fundy, 
belong to His Britannic Majesty." Thus the Union Jack floats over 
Campobello with its merry suminer company, and that storm-defying 
ocean monarch. Grand Manan. 

GRAND MANAN. 

This noble island, "a paradise of sea-girt cliffs," as some writer has 
termed it, lies in the very entrance to the Bay of Fundy, nine miles from 
the American shore and eighteen miles from Eastport, where steamers 
may be taken for reaching it, by easy sail of two hours. 

For a long time Grand Manan has been a favorite resort for marine 
-artists and others interested in grand cliff and shore scenery. 

The highest and most precipitous cliffs are at the southern extremity 
of the island. Here they rise to a height of from three to four hundred 
feet above the sea, which breaks at their feet with sullen roar and spray 
dashed high against the mighty barrier, dislodging myriads of sea-fowl, 
which wing their screaming flight below. It is a scene which reminds 
one of the tales of the Norwegian coast, or what might be expected in 
Icelandic waters or among the Hebrides. 

The western shore extends in a series of these cliffs twenty miles, with 
no accessible entrance from the sea ; but on the eastern shore are several 
villages lying within pleasant coves ; smaller islands lie scattered in the 
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Near the northern head, called Bishop's Head, from a rocky figure 
rising boldly out of the sea off shore, and named " The Bishop," are two 
hotels and some private boarding-houses. In this neighborhood is 
Swallow-tail Head, upon which the lighthouse stands, surrounded by cliffs 
deeply scarred by the action of the waves. 

Whale Cove opens delightful features ; around it tower gigantic cliffs 
displaying a variety of formations, at one place brilliant with varied 
hues, and in another regular strata are piled up in consecutive layers, 
commonly called the " Seven Days' Work." The beaches at the foot of 
the cliffs show gay-colored pebbles. 

It is a land of wonderment, and presents, especially during and follow- 
ing a storm, marine views unsurpassed in their grandeur. There are 
good facilities for fishing and shooting. The roads of the island are 
excellent ; good horses for driving can be had at moderate prices, and 
the same may be said of boats and boatmen. 

It is a land which should be visited by all lovers of the sublime in 
Nature, and may be taken in as a side trip with the other Passama- 
quoddy resorts in the ocean voyage eastward. 




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ST. ANDREWS. 

" And the pale health-seeker findeth there 
The wine of life in its pleasant air." 

This couplet might well have been written of the charming new-old 
summer-resort, St. Andrews-by-the-sea ; old, dating back far beyond its 
early settlement by the sturdy Loyalists, who fled from America upon 
the Declaration of Independence, issued by the colonies, and who founded 
upon the long peninsula extending far into the bay, this quaint old town, 
whose streets laid out by Deputy John Jones, surveyor for the Crown, 
in 1 784, are the earliest example of the Philadelphia checkerboard plan on 
record, consisting of avenues of a uniform length and fifty to eighty feet 
wide, crossing at right angles and dividing the town into sixty blocks, 
each three hundred and twenty feet square. 

Old again in its reminiscences of its sturdy Loyalist fore-fathers, who, 
leaving the " States " during and immediately following their rebeUion 
against the Crown, brought to this quiet border town their families and 
flocks, with, in some cases, their homes also, in proof of which there are 
houses now standing in St. Andrews whose frames were brought from 
Castine by their Loyalist owners, and set up anew beneath the Crown. 

Within the English church of the tovvn rests, conspicuously displayed, 
the royal coat-of-arms, brought by its staunch supporter. Parson Samuel 
Andrews, from the church at Wallingford, Connecticut, where, during 
the struggle for independence, he had earnestly prayed- for the success 
of the English arms, and, caring not to live in the new republic, settled 
at St. Andrews, bringing the emblem of royalty with him. 

New St. Andrews boasts its fine hotel, "The Algonquin," opened in 
June, 1889, to receive nearly 1,400 guests its first season, and other 
improvements of the old town, which have made this sleeping-beauty 
of the seaside the ideal summer resort. 

Few coast towns have a more favored location than St. Andrews. 
Long before it was thought of as a summer resort, it enjoyed a certain 
patronage from ]:)leasure-seekers from Northern New Brunswick and 
across the border. Its marked characteristics led to the formation of 
the St. Andrews Land Company, who have, with their varied improve- 
ments, of which the new hotel and Indian Point Park are notable 
examples, made the old town to blossom Hke the rose. 

The hotel stands upon an eminence overlooking the town, and 150 
feet above sea level. From its broad piazzas an unobstructed view is 
had, disclosing the whole panorama of Passamaquoddy Bay, with the 
Chamcook Mountains, the St. Croix River and the distant shores of 
Nova Scotia for a background. 



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JlXZ '"'T ' '"' """^""^^>' '^°™ ^'^y'^'^'^ that distressing 

malady be.ng unknown to the residents of the town, while the afflicted 
even those who visit here at well-advanced stages of the disorder, find 
early and complete relief. 

there ..always much ,o recall u-i.h pleasure; while with the ocean 

voyage from Bos.ou, or IVou, Portland to Eastport, as an auxiliary no 

be er med.ane can be recommended the tired brain-worker, or summer 

health and pleasure-seek-er, than a sojourn at this Passan,ac,u«ldy resort 

There are mountains for climbing, the Chamcooks. reached in a three- 

m,e drne ,ro,n the hotel, over roads which are perfection, and at . e r 

feet he a cham of clear water lakes affording fine trout fishing, .^nglins 

tn both salt and fresh water ,nay be enjoyed here with sure result. The 

yatchsman finds a paradise, and the student of history his desire. There 

are poss,b,h.,es for pleasure to suit every t.as,e. coupled with a quiet 

restfulness of surroundings which is itself a boon. 




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THE ST. CROIX RIVER AND SCHOODIC LAKES, THE SPORTSiMAN'S PARADISE 

A STORY OF 1604 CALAIS AND ST. STEPHEN, 

THE GATE TO THE PROVINCES. 

IT IS the Frontier Steamboat Company, whose boats, connecting with 
the International steamers at the wharf of the latter company at East- 
port, cross the bay 10 St. Andrews and ascend the historic St. Croix to the 
river towns along its banks. It is thirteen miles to St. Andrews — tha-teen 
miles of delightful sailing with the objective point in view, backed up by 
the Chamcook Mountains and other highlands of New Brunswick, which 
border the bay. 

After leaving the wharf at St. Andrews, the steamer rounds Joe's Point 
and enters the St. Croix. This noble stream flows from the Chiputneti- 
cook, or Schoodic chain of lakes — lakes famous for their fishing and 
hunting opportunities — and forms, with the lakes above named, for a 
considerable distance the boundary line between the United States and 
Dominion of Canada. This is /he region for famous game and fish — 
the home of the moose, deer and land-locked salmon. 

Ascending the St. Croix as far as Calais, a point we shall soon reach 
in description, which lies thirty miles up river from Eastport, a short 
railroad, the St. Croix & Penobscot, may be taken, which will bear the 
sportsman twice across the river and on to the village of Princeton at the 
very outlet of the Grand Lakes of Washington County, Maine, and into 
a game region of forest, lake and stream. 

From Princeton a small steamboat runs up the lower lake to Grand 
Lake Stream, the outlet of Grand Lake, and the home of coundess land- 
locked salmon of aldermanic proportions. On the lower lake there is a 
large village of Passamaquoddy Indians, whose young men make capital 
guides for the sportsmen entering this region. 

The townships here bear numbers as distinctive marks ; settlements 
have not driven out the game, which here exists as in no other part of 
the State. The Maine Commissioner of Game and Fish has recently 
placed the number of deer "on the hoof" within his territory at ten 
thousand, with a large ratio at home within these Washington County 
woods. The names of Grand Lake and Grand Lake Stream are a well- 

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known and sufficient guarantee that the angler may here find Ultima 
Tlwle. 

Can a more deHghtful trip be planned by the sportsman than the 
ocean voyage we have described, reaching Eastport in the early morning 
after twenty-four restful hours from Boston, and with the privilege of 
sojourn in Passamacjuoddy if desired, or push on to this sportsman's 
paradise by boat and rail same day? 

But to return to the ascent of the St. Croix, from which we have been 
diverted by these sporting possibilities. Joe's Point hides the town of 
St. Andrews, and the little steamer bears away up stream with Europe 
on the right and the border of America to the left. America presents 
the shores of Robbinston and reminds of the current border story of a 
cannon-ball dropped into St. Andrews' suburbs upon the 4th of July, 
and returned upon the Queen's Birthday. As the distance from town 
to town is three miles, this must resolve itself into popular fable, told 
for its border-poetic effect. In truth, there is only harmony between the 
two. 

Chamcook Mountains, upon the New Brunswick side, are soon passed, 
and Douchet's Island appears in mid channel. Here description must 
give way to historical incident, which must wake the dullest fancy as 
one passes this small island, so long neutral territory, and which is fast 
disappearing before the flow of the stream, which must ere long remove 
this, the site of the earliest attempt at settlement in this part of the New 
World. Here is the story : — 

By royal patent given by King Henry IV. — Henry of Navarre — and 
dated November 8, 1603, all the American territory between the fortieth 
and forty-sixth degree of north latitude was granted to his well-beloved 
friend Pierre de Gast, the Sieur Des Monts. "Acadia" was the name 
given to the grant — a name which still clings to the country and people : 
thus we have the Acadians, and the towns of Tracadie, Shubenacadie 
and others in Nova Scotia. 

Des Monts during the winter secured and equipped two vessels, in 
which he and his party arrived the 6th of May, 1604, on the southerly 
side of the peninsula of Nova Scotia. Coasting the new country they 
entered the beautiful Annapolis basin, where, charmed with the spot, 
part of the expedition remained to found the ancient town of Port Royal, 
— now Annapolis, Nova Scotia. We shall see this town later on, and 
present a picture of the defences erected by this early colony. 

Des Monts, with Samuel Champlain as pilot, set sail for fresh dis- 
coveries in the new acquisition. They explored the Bay of Fundy, and 
thence proceeded to the waters of Passamaquoddy, which they called 



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a "sea of salt water." This was the first expedition to these waters. 
Passing through the outer fringe of islands, which stand guard as to-day, 
sheltering the calm within from the boisterous sea without, the ships 
crossed the bay, passing within pistol shot of the site of the present 
town of St. Andrews, and ascended the St. Croix, even as we now are, 
until arriving at a small island Champlain selected it as a suitable spot 
for defence, disembarked his forces and fortified it against encroachment 
from the Indians. 

He, geographer as well as pilot, describes it as " about three leagues 
in circuit," and from the fact that immediately above small streams 
flowed crosswise to join the larger river, thus giving it the form of the 
Holy Cross, he named the island St. Croix, a name which has since 
descended to the river, while Douchet's is the name the island bears. 

During the long boundary disputes this island was held as neutral 
ground and enjoyed all the rights and privileges of No Man's Land, 
thus becoming a favored dueling resort. 

To-day it bears a light supported by the United States Government. 
Within the keeper's house are many relics of the early settlement. 

Upon this island Des Monts chose to winter the expedition. The 
Indians were disposed to be friendly to the strangers, but of this the 
colonists were in doubt and took every precaution to guard against 
surprise. Prodigality in building their winter quarters had caused a 
dearth of wood, and as the long, cold winter of the northern climate 
progressed, the water-courses were frozen and the men were forced to 
cross to the mainland for both wood and water. This they did under 
cover of the night and in constant fear of attack. 

To add to the horror of their situation a new and dread disease broke 
out among them. Thirty-six of the little band of ninety fell victims to 
scurvy before a remedy was found in a simple antiscorbutic — the 
boughs of the spruce steeped and drank. This was recommended by 
the Indians, and forms the earliest testimonial in favor of spruce beer. 

The bodies of their dead were carried at night to the mainland by 
their comrades and there buried. Fancy the feelings of these men in a 
new and unexplored country, in the midst of an unknown death, and 
surrounded by a dreaded forest foe ! 

Spring came at last to their relief, and, with the survivors, Des Monts 
set sail about the middle of May, 1605, southward in search of a warmer 
clime. They entered the Penobscot, discovered and named Mount 
Desert, and voyaged as far as Cape Cod ; there the search was abandoned 
and the ship returned to Port Royal. 



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THE MAGAGUADAVIC RIVKR AND LAKE UTOPIA. 

Let US return for a moment to Passamaquoddy before bidding it adieu. 

At a point some distance east of the peninsula occupied by Si. Andrews, 
the Magaguadavic River, a purely provincial stream, finds the sea also in 
Passamaquoddy Bay. It bears a strong i)art in the history of boundary 
disputes. For more than a century and a half following the attempted 
colonization at the island of the Holy Cross, this was practically a for- 
gotten region. Meanwhile, other adventurers from Catholic France had 
visited the Magaguadavic, and, as was the custom with discoverers from 
Catholic countries, had set up the cross at its mouth. From this incident 
the river became known as the St. Croix, and as such when confounded 
with the St. Croix of the Des Monts expedition, which was named as the 
boundary in the treaty of peace between Great Britain and the United 
States, at the close of the revolutionary struggle, caused the knot which 
required so much dij^lomacy to unravel. 

The river flows from a lake of the same name, near Magaguadavic 
station on the New Brunswick Railway, and receives numerous affluents 
on its way to the sea. Its course is through rural New Brunswick, a 
country of fields and forests. 

Lake Utopia lies near the coast, where in early days the Indians had 
their homes and rallying-place. Curious relics of this aboriginal people 
are from time to time unearthed. The overflow of its waters reach the 
Magaguadavic River through a natural canal and enter the bay at St. 
George, with a rush of waters known as the Falls of the Magaguadavic, 
a picturesque cascade well worth a visit. 

On the west shore of tiie lake rises a palisade of rock, a peculiarly 
beautiful red granite much sought in architectural adornment. 

Here the St. George Granite Company quarries from the everlasting 
hills fine building stone, and here we take leave of Passamaquoddy. 

CALAIS AND ST. STEPHEN. 

Leaving Douchet's Island behind, the steamer ascends the St. Croix to 
the head of navigation, thirty miles abo\'e Eastport, where are the two 
important points, the city of Calais, Maine, upon the left and the town of 
St. Stephen, New Brunswick, upon the right bank. 

The American city of Calais is the largest and most important point 
in Eastern Maine, and St. Stephen the leading town on the Canadian side 
of the river. 

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which the magnificent water power of the St. Croix affords unrivalled 
facihties, and the upper section on each side is known as Milltown. 
These places are connected by bridges, and, though under different 
national and local governments, have common interests, and together 
constitute a large community, the most important centre of commercial 
and industrial pursuits between the Penobscot and the St. John. Besides 
the flourishing lumber trade, each has also considerable shipping interests. 
At Milltown, on the Canadian side, stands a large cotton factory, erected 
principally by American capital and controlled by American manage- 
ment ; and at Red Beach, in the lower ward of Calais, are quarries which 
produce red granite, a beautiful building material, also widely used for 
monumental purposes. 

The sites of the two places, sloping upward on opposite shores, afford 
fine locations for the homes, business places, antl public buildings of the 
prosperous people. Among them are the steeples of elegant church 
edifices, and excellent hotels accommodate the large travel which centres 
in the wide-awake community. 

There are interesting drives about the two towns, in the enjoyment of 
which the American visitor must be taught the unwritten law of provincial 
roads, which requires the driver to turn to the left in passing, the direct 
opposite to the rule of the road in the " States," but the correct thing, 
as it brings the drivers side by side, thus narrowing the possibility of 
collision. 

"The rule of the road is a paradox quite. 
In driving your carriage along. 
If you keep to the left, you are sure to go right, 
If you keep to the right you go wrong." 

As this rule of the road is prevalent throughout the British Provinces, 
we give it here at the doorway. 

Both St. Stephens, at this point on the river, and St. Andrews at its 
mouth, present routes for reaching Northern Maine and New Brunswick 
points, being branch terminals of the New Brunswick Railway. These 
branches join at Watt Junction, some twenty miles above the St. Croix, 
and afford the shortest route to the New Brunswick towns of McAdam, 
Magaguadavic, Canterbury, Benton, Debec and Woodstock, and the 
Maine town of Houlton. A continuation of the branch from Debec 
Junction strikes the main line of the road at Newburgh, near Woodstock, 
reaching the Aroostook County (Maine) towns of Fort Fairfield, Cari- 
bou and Presque Isle, as well as all Northern New Brunswick towns to 
the Madawaska River. 



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But St. John forms the true gateway through which to reach all 
Provincial points, and to St. John the International steamers, from East- 
port, next proceed to meet connections by rail over the New Brunswick 
and Intercolonial railways with all parts of the Old North- East. 






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OF THE ST. JOHN RIVER — SPORT IN ABUNDANCE — 
PRETTY FREDERICTON, ETC. 

■ TT IS a divli-ht sail through the British waters of the Bay of Futidy 
I .0 sV ol^, the steamer keeping close to shore, allowing the New 
Brunswick coast to pass in moving panorama. Here and there a rocky 
c ve appears, givin way to pretty bay and pebbly beach tnhatoe 
rude isolated cabin and tidy settlement mdtcates. As the steamer 
advances into the bay the interest deepens. 

Warner says : "The very name of Fundy is s.imulattng to the .magtna- 
tion anrid thl geographical wastes of youth. The young ^-J «-'- 
out to its tides with an enthusiasm that ts grven only to ^'^S^'^C^ve 
and other pictorial wonders of the text-book. I am sure the d,st ct 
chools would become what they are not now if the geographers wouM 
make other parts of the globe as attractive as the sonorous Bay of 
Fiindy." 

ST. JOHN. 

After steaming eastward for three and one-half hours we enter the 
hafbor o St. John, and approach the city. This harbor ,s deep and 
capac ous. It lies upon the western and southern sides of the cty wtth 
Partridge Island, upon which are a light, signal and quarantme stat.on, 
Thelterfng i, from L sea. St. John is the mantime city of the Mantnrre 
Pro incel Its wharves and docks are ever thronged wtth sh.pp.ng. to 
V St quantities of lumber, the product of New Brunswtck forests, are 
annually sent from this trade centre of the lower provtnces, whtch has- 
become the fo.irth among the shipping ports of the world 

The city is made up of the municipal district of S. John proper the 
city of P-tland and the suburb of Fairville, with but tmaginary hnes of 
dWisl Altogether they contain a population of fifty thousand. At 
Urwhar'ves thefamous ttcies rise and fall thirty feet, seem.ng to produ« 
1 .rmoering effect on the summer atmosphere ; an oppress.ve y warrn 
day tof -e fcurrence. the evenhtgs and n.ghts being delightfully cool, 
and the air filled with "the odor of brine from the ocean. 



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St. John is well provided with hotels, the Royal, the Dufferin and 
Victoria being examples, and being the chief city of New Brunswick, to 
it converge all rail and steam navigation lines of this '^ East Countree." 

Visitors to the city much enjoy the fine drives amid its surroundings. 
■One of these leads across the suspension bridge, and affords a fine view 
of the "reversible cataract " which exists where river meets sea. 

Think of the immense volume of water which the St. John River 
discharges into the sea, all emptied through a narrow rocky chasm but 
500 feet wide. Just above the city the river expands into a broad bay 
with every intention of a quiet exit from its confining banks. But just 
above the city, where, at their narrowest point, two bridges have been 
built, one a foot and carriage suspension and the other a railroad canti- 



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lever, the waters are confined in a rugged gorge, through which they rush 
with the speed and power of a mill-race. Here occurs the fall. It is a 
peculiar fall, and the above term applied to it by an American humorist 
explains its peculiarity. At high tide the sea has a descent of fifteen 
feet into the river ; at low tide the river has a like fall into the sea ; at 
half-tide all is serene, and the river may be navigated with safety. This 
is above St. John, and does not affect the seaward approach to the city. 
Of historical interest St. John possesses much. Near the bridges, upon 
the Carleton side of the harbor, one may see the ruins of Fort La Tour, 
where was enacted the grandest drama of woman's heroism ever enacted 
in the New World. Madame La Tour and her famous defence of the 



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fort and garrison which occupied this spot will be remembered as long 
as Canada has a history. 

Then one must visit the Martello Tower — old stone towers are not 
so common that this can be overlooked — one of the ancient defences 
of the city, crowning the hill upon the harbor front, and climb the steep 
hill of Fort Howe, at the western extremity of the city, to obtain the 
bird's-eye view of St. John, its environs and lively harbor scene, which 
is presented at its best from this point. 

Fort Howe now contains a few antiquated cannon and dismantled 
barracks, but time was when it presented all the lively phases of an 
English garrison, and there remain many evidences of its military occu- 
pation. Notable troops were (gartered here. The sunburned heroes of 
the Crimea ; soldiers, who had fought at Inkerman and in the trenches 
before Sebastopol, were quartered amid these quiet surroundings in ye 
olden time. 

St. John's public and private buildings are, as a rule, of fine appear- 
ance, and the new passenger railway station used by the Intercolonial 
and New Brunswick roads is a model of modern taste and convenience. 
Altogether, St. John's invitation may well be heeded, and a brief 
sojourn, at least, before farther journeying may be passed with pleasure 
and profit within her borders. 

This, then, forms the terminus of the International Line, three hundred 
and fifty miles from Boston, and as the steamers, finding a ready pas- 
senger list of provincial people and returning tourists, retrace the route 
to Boston, we are left at St. John to consider in which direction our 
pilgrimage shall now lead us. 

THE RIVER ST. JOHN. 

First let us consider the St. John River, its villages, towns, cities, and 
hunting and fishing resorts, reached by the New Brunswick Railway 
from St. John City. 

Rising in Northern Maine this noble stream, justly celebrated for its 
scenery, flows northvvard then toward the east forming for many miles 
the International boundary, until finally, with one grand sweep around 
the northern highlands, it begins its course of three hundred miles to the 
sea. It and its tributaries drain an immense area in Maine, New Bruns- 
wick and Quebec, reaching out to forest lakes though a timber growth 
which is yet a stranger to the woodsman's axe. Within tliese shaded 
wilds are large game and large fish, to test the nerve and skill of the 
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Along the main stream farm succeeds farm for miles, on either bank, 
interspersed by town and village of rural quiet. Its head waters pene- 
trate the Province of Quebec, and approach the famous salmon streams 
Restigouche and Metapedia in the extreme northern part of New Bruns- 
wick. 

Its own tributary streams are famous for their fishing, such names as 
the Tobique, river and lake, and Temiscouata being again a sure guar- 
antee of sport. The right of salmon fishing, on all the principal streams 
within the Provinces, is held by lessees under its federal or local govern- 
ments. Permission to fish is usually granted to visitors l)y the lessees. 







Such as are or become vacant are sold at public auction at Fredericton, 
the capital. Further information on this point can be obtained from 
the Crown Land Office, Fredericton. 

The tourist-sportsman must not from this infer that he is debarred from 
angling in these waters. Though some are sold there are riparian privileges 
enough for all without trespass, and the angler is sure to receive a 
thoroughly honest welcome. 

Above the Tobique numerous tributaries enter the St. John, which may 
be passed by the tourist, until Grand River, fourteen miles above the 



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Grand Falls, is reached. Its station and telegraph office is St. Leonard's. 
Grand River is not specially noted for its fishing, but is worthy of mention 
as a favorite way of reaching the Restigouche, the most famous of 
Canadian salmon rivers. 

Next above St. Leonard's, and thirty-nine mile^ above Grand Falls, is 
Edmundston, the northern terminus of the New Brunswick Railway. It 
is prettily situated on rising ground at the confluence of the Madawaska 
and St. John. The litde village boasts of little except its scenery, and the 
quaint customs and manners of its people. It contains a good hotel, and. 
its chief claim to the sportsman's consideration is that it forms the head- 
quarters for the great fishing trips to the upper St. John. 

Madawaska, Green River and Fish River enter the St. John in this 
vicinity ; the Madawaska from Lake Temiscouata in the Province of 
Quebec ; the Fish from Eagle Lakes in North Maine, and the Green 
from four lakes in Northern New Brunswick, which have not yet been 
supplied with names, but are termed ist, 2d, 3d, and 4th. Possibly, the 
stock of names has run out among the myriad sheets of water which 
the section holds, and some future visitor may embalm his name or fancy 
forevermore by bestowing a cognomen upon these hidden lakes. 

Upon all the tributaries of the St. John above Grand Falls good trout- 
fishing may be enjoyed. At present, and until the projected government 
fishway is completed, salmon cannot ascend the falls. The ordinary 
ntieans of locomotion employed by sportsmen upon the rivers and lakes 
of Northern New Bnmswick is the log canoe or peroigiie. This will 
carry three persons, including the guide, and the camping outfit. French 
guides can be procured for a dollar a day. They will furnish the canoes, 
blankets for their own use, plates, etc. The sportsman must provide his 
tent, his personal outfit, and his provisions. 

Indian guides with bark canoes may be chosen at the visitor's option, 
or batteaus for larger parties. Good guides can be obtained at Andover, 
Grand Falls or Edmundston, without difficulty. It is not usually neces- 
sary to engage them in advance ; but, if requested, the hotel-keepers at 
any of the towns will arrange it. 

GRAND FALLS. 

Although not partaking in an eminent degree in the title of fishing 
resort, we cannot leave the St. John's River without a reference to 
Grand Falls, which presents a variety of attractions in the grandeur of 
the cataract, the rugged sublimity of the gorge, the fury of the rapids, 
the rich coloring of the rocks, the lovely outlooks from its high hilN, 



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the charming drives, the strong pure air, the quaint customs of the 
French liahitaus, all combined to give the visitor pleasure. 

The old town, settled, as were many of its neighbors, by remnants of 
the exiled Acadian band, after long wanderings, has ever been a point 
of interest to the traveller. Even in the old stage days, when the nearest 
railroad station was seventy-five miles distant, the Falls attracted many 
visitors. In situation ihe town is bounded upon three sides by the river, 
which here makes an abrupt bend encompassing the town, which stands 
upon a horseshoe peninsula thus formed. It is laid out with mathe- 
matical regularity, and with refreshing regard for elbow-room. Broad- 
way — in name and nature — runs through the centre of the town ; at 
one end is the railway station, and at the other the falls. 

The river narrows as it reaches the cataract, and widens again to its 
original dimension immediately after its passage of the tortuous course 
around the town. On either hand its banks rise into steep bluffs, one 
hundred and twenty-five feet high upon the west, and two hundred and 
fifty feet descent from town to river upon the eastern side. The cataract 
itself exceeds the anticipation, its plunge is seventy-five feet, and the 
distance from one side of the gorge to the other, in a straight line, is 
three hundred feet. Except in very dry summers there is an unbroken 
curtain of water from bank to bank, falling into a whirlpool of terrific 
power. Clouds of spray are ever drifting up from the abyss, moved this 
way and that with listless motion. This ofttimes at night produces a 
lunar bow which spans the fall, and, occasionally, will-o'-the-wisps hover 
over the moist, mossy caverns. 

Of course, the fall is not without its romance of the Indian Maiden. 
This time, so says tradition, it was a daughter of the Milicites taken 
prisoner by the Mohawks, their ancient enemy, who had killed her 
father and brothers. Her captor planned a night descent upon her 
tribe, and she was directed to build a fire to mark the nearest point to 
the falls which could be safely approached by canoes. She built the 
fire on the rocks below the falls, and then, as a guarantee of good faith, 
led the foremost canoe of the advance. Straight for the light she steered. 
Closely the warriors followed ; over the falls the whole band sailed and 
none escaped. 

The points of interest about Grand Falls, apart from the fall itself, are 
the Gorge, which is spanned by a suspension bridge affording a fine view 
down the Narrows, and "The Wells," within the Gorge, about midway 
between the Upper and Lower Basins. These wells are immense holes 
worn in the rock by the action of the water upon small stones. They 
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exceptionally large. They form an interesting study to the geologist, as 
indeed do all the curious rock formations of the neighborhood. 

There is much of interest hereabout which warrants a longer descrip- 
tion, but we must journey eastward. Such, then, is the St. John, a river 
teeming with beauty and with sport, whose grand natural attractions are 
supplemented in a high degree by the allurements of its forests, lakes and 
streams ; a river followed throughout almost its entire course by the 
New Brunswick Railway, and which is best and most advantageously 
reached by the ocean route from Boston, Portland or Passamaquoddy to 
St. John's City, thence direct by rail, or to a connection with the rail 
route at Fredericton by steamers of the "Union Line," plying the river 
daily between the seaport and capital. 

Leaving St. John, by crossing the cantilever bridge, the train loses the 
river at Westfield, a few miles out, to find it again at Fredericton, the 
capital of New Brunswick, situated upon the St. John some eighty-five 
miles by the river from the sea, and sixty-six miles by rail. 

Between the two cities the river is at its broadest and recalls an incident. 
During one old-time winter this long reach of water, then ice, was the 
scene of an interesting race between the teams of Lord North, who 
commanded the garrison at St. John, and Larry Stivers, a butcher of 
Fredericton, who had accepted his wager of ^500. Possibly the leader 
of the British Rugulars found life a trifle dull in garrison at St. John after 
Crimean batdes, and did this to stir up the monkeys for the time. 

Be that as it may, the race was run, with honors easy until near the 
finish, when one of Larry's horses fell, and, before he could be cleared, 
Lord North secured a lead which brought him in ahead. North refused 
to accept the wager, but, striking the butcher's palm, exclaimed : " Keep 
it, Larry ! You're the only man in the province with courage to run that 
race." So the story goes. 

A steamboat line now plies the river through the scene of the North- 
Stivers struggle from St. John to Fredericton. The " Union Line " it is 
termed, and the visitor has to choose between it and the rail ride to 
Fredericton. 

Fredericton is beautifully situated upon a level plain, directly upon 
the St. John River, with New Brunswick hills surrounding. It is a pretty 
place and well worth a visit. As capital of the province it contains the 
Parliament Buildings and the Government House, within fine grounds ; a 
cathedral, normal school, and other structures of note, all tree-embowered 
by magnificent elms, planted with keen foresight by the city fathers of 
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Tall elms and flower gardens are Fredericton's specialties, to which 
must be added its suburban drives, which are numerous and very 
pleasing. One of these, "the old road," discloses such extensive and 
beautiful vistas of scenery, wherever a break in the dense foliage occurs, 
that many tourists pronounce it unsurpassed. 

Leaving Fredericton, with its broad sweep of the river behind, we 
continue on through a series of inconsiderable towns to Woodstock 
Junction and Newburgh. From the latter point a branch connects for 
Houlton, Maine, through Woodstock, while we continue on in search of 
the famous salmon and trout streams of Northern New Brunswick. 

After leaving the junction point at Newburgh, the road again strikes 
the St. John and follows it to its very head-waters. As the train skirts 
the river, which is in full view upon the left, it crosses numerous tributaries 
famous for their fishing, as the Tobique, and others, which approach the 
Southwest Miramichi and Restigouche. There is this peculiarity , about 
the New Brunswick rivers, they approach each other by serpentine wind- 
ings, and by the myriad arms of their affluents, until it is possible to visit 
with canoe and paddle a great section of country, by " carrying " across 
the narrow intervening space. 

Thus, for example, one might leave the train of the New Brunswick 
Railway at Kent Station, and ascend the Shiktehawk, branch of the St. 
John, to its (2/;«<?i'/ juncture with the northwest branch of the Miramichi, 
and from thence descend that river through its famous fishing and hunt- 
ing-grounds, or, by a carry of two miles only, from the head of Salmon 
or Grand rivers ; other branches of the St. John reach the Restigouche 
itself 

The same is true, in reverse, by the route of the Intercolonial Railway 
from St. John. This road crosses the heads of the bays, outlets of the 
Miramichi, Restigouche, and a host of others of only lesser note, and 
inlets for the salmon which have given the streams their noble reputa- 
tion. 

From the bays one must now ascend these streams and carry to the 
affluents of the St. John. Both provincial lines of railway offer this 
peculiar facility to the sportsman. For hundreds of miles numerous 
rivers, navigable to canoe and paddle, intersect the roads, and the tourist 
has but to choose from the many streams, and with the stream its most 
convenient station. 

To the sportsman then let us say : Here is a country of unlimited 
extent, which is open by such means as the above to anyone who can sit 
in a birch and ply a paddle ; here is game worthy of your rifle, and game- 
fish such as no other section of earth can boast. 



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To reach this Ultima Thule, the water route from Boston to St. John is 
named, as adding novelty to the rail-ride from St. John. For the purpose 
of guiding the sporting fraternity to this region, we enter in detail the 
fishing- waters of New Brunswick. 












THE SALMON STREAMS OF NEW BRUNSWICK AND HOW TO REACH THEM 

THE TOBIQUE, ITS LAKES AND MOUNTAINS 

A VIEW FROM BALD HEAD. 




NE excellent salmon stream, the Southwest Mira- 
michi, is reached from Kent, a station one 
hundred and twenty-two miles from St. John 
on the New Brunswick Railway. Anglers 
^ . can suit their fancy or convenience as to 
where they will procure their outfit. Those 
who have the necessary appliances for 
camping and sport will, of course, bring 
them, others can secure good outfits in St. 
John or Fredericton. Provisions for the trip should be purchased before 
leaving the towns for the forest. Sportsmen should bring their own tents 
if possible. 

Teams can be secured at Kent Station, which will bear the sportsman 
and outfit to the river, distant but fifteen miles. From the point where 
the road from the station strikes the southwest branch to Boisetown — 
upon the main river — is sixty miles. From Boisetown the sportsman 
may choose the route by canoe and carry, or by road forty-five miles to 
Fredericton, or return the way he came. 

The best salmon-hole is at Burnt Hill, about twenty-five miles down 
stream from the point of embarkation. Other favorite places are the 
Clearwater Rocky Bend, Rocky Brook, and Three-mile Rapids. The 
salmon are not as large as those taken on the Restigouche, rarely reach- 
ing above twenty-five pounds in weight, but they are gamy and afford 
fine sport. One who succeeds in landing a specimen need not fear to 
tackle a forty-pounder. 

As an instance of the abundance of the fish in this stream comes the 
fact that twenty salmon have been taken by one angler in a single after- 
noon, while the same gentleman killed five full-grown salmon and hooked 
the sixth within an hour at the Rocky Bend. 

The Miramichi takes its rise some two hundred miles or more from 
the sea, near the St. John and its tributaries, and drains an area equal to 

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fully one quarter of the province. It is navigable from its mouth to 
large vessels for forty-six miles, and for canoes for many hundreds. It 
forms the grand sportsman's highway for reaching every quarter of a 
superb game region, where sport is unlimited amid moose, caribou, deer, 
bears, wolves, foxes, raccoons, loup-cerviers and all the smaller animals 
of the forest, while game-fish may be killed from the canoe in passage. 
Both the New Brunswick and the Intercolonial railways offer routes, 
the first for reaching the headwaters of the tributary rivers to the Mira- 
michi, and the latter crossing the parent stream, where, at its entrance 
to the great bay of the same name, are situated the towns of New Castle 
and Chatham. New Castle is a good point of departure for the upper 
river. 

THE TOBIQUE. 

Twenty miles above Kent Station the two New Brunswick towns of 
Perth and Andover lie upon opposite banks of the river St. John, and 
midway between enters the Tobiqiie. 

Andover, New Brunswick, a pretty rural village, is its railway and 
telegraph station. At Andover the sportsman should stop for a time to 
secure a guide and canoe. These can be hired at the Indian village, 
which stands just above the junction of the two streams. 

This tributary of the St. John is named by travellers the most pictur- 
esque stream in America, while an additional attraction lies in the fact that 
it affords excellent fishing. It is a great spawning ground for salmon, 
and the trout in its waters are legion. From its mouth to Nictaux — 
the Forks — is about sixty-three miles. Here the river divides into three 
branches, each some fifty miles long, all meeting at the Forks in one 
deep pool, wherein one may see great salmon swimming, and the encir- 
cling trees cast their shadow and image upon the water. 

The entrance to the Tobique from the St. John is tame, but a mile 
farther on perpendicular walls of rock raise their heads on either shore. 
Here occur "The Narrows," a striking bit of scenery. They are one- 
half mile long, from fifty to one hundred feet wide, the walls rising in 
some places one hundred to one hundred and fifty feet in height. 

The river widens out above The Narrows, and in its windings presents 
a wonderful variety of scene. Twenty-eight miles above the St. John is 
the great Plaster Cliff, an enormous deposit of red sandstone. It has a 
frontage on the river for half a mile, and rises to a height of one hundred 
and thirty-five feet. The cliff presents the appearance of an enormous 
ruin as one's canoe floats by at night. Twelve miles farther on is Blue 
Mountain Bend. The Blue Mountains, upon the right in ascending, 



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have an elevation of sixteen huiidred feet above the sea, and add to the 
beauty of the Tobique. Ten miles above, Bald Head rises twenty-two 
hundred feet, and terminates in almost a complete cone, its summit 
having about half the area of an ordinary railway car. It can be ascended 
on its northern and western sides only ; on the south and east it towers 
nearly perpendicularly for one thousand feet. It rises from a valley 
approached by a forest road, affording never-to-be-forgotten glimpses 
of its rugged summit. 

Many sportsmen voyaging the Tobique leave the river to climb Bald 
Head, lured by the extended view obtainable from its summit, which 
includes in its far-reaching sweep one hundred miles of the winding 
course of the river, distant mountains, among them famous Katahdin 
in Northern Maine, and millions of acres of New Brunswick wilds. 

The fishing thus far has been good in point of numbers, but the fish 
are not large. It is necessary to know where to angle, but the guides 
can tell you. The Indian guides of the Tobique are trusty fellows, 
strong and active in their canoes, wonderfully adept with the salmon- 
spear, and zealous for their patrons' comfort. 

Famous fishing may be enjoyed about the Forks, while of the streams 
into which the river divides at this point the left-hand branch, called the 
Litde Tobique, is best for trout. The right-hand branch, or Campbell 
River, is a favorite resort for salmon, while the Mamozekel, or central 
branch, is not remarkable for its fish. 

It is a singular fact that salmon will only go to the right-hand branch, 
and white-fish only to the left-hand branch. One-half mile from 
Nictaux, on the left-hand branch, is the celebrated White-fish Hole. 
There is usually good trout fishing there. 

From its forks following the deviating streams to the right and left, — 
no one ascends the central branch for sport, — brings one to the lakes 
which form the sources of the Tobique. Ascend the Little Tobique, — 
it is best for trout fishing — you will find its source in Little Tobique 
Lake, a pretty sheet of water noted for its big trout, between which and 
Lake Nepisiquit, the source of the river of same name, exists a carry of 
but three miles. The river Nepisiquit flows in an entirely opposite 
direction from the Tobique, and, crossing the Province, finds the sea in 
the Bale Des Chaleurs, an arm of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 







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TO THF NORTH I RX PROMNCll AND I HI I \R I \MI I) RLSlK,OU(.Hr THF 

CLEAR WATERS OF THE METAPEDIA PROVINCIAL GAME LAWS. 

"D ETURNING once more to St. John as the distributing point for 
travel east and north, to the hmits of the province of New Bruns- 
wick, to Nova Scotia, and to Prince Edward Island and the island ot 
Cape Breton, the tourist now embarks upon the great steel highway of 
the Intercolonial Railway. 

From St. John to Sussex, a distance of forty-four miles, the country 
bordering the line is well settled and abounds in beautiful villages. The 
Kennebaccasis River here flows close beside the tracks for several miles, 
the hills rising on the distant shore in picturesque beauty. As Riverside 
is reached, one of the finest racing waters on the continent is brought 
to view. This is the scene of many notable aquatic contests. Here it 
was that the renowned Paris and Tyne crews struggled for victory one 
autumn morning years ago, when James Renforth, champion oarsman of 
England, fell from the English boat, and was carried to the shore to die. 
Rothesay, nine miles above the city, contains many handsome villas, 
the summer houses of St. John business men and others. Their orna- 
mental trees and carefully arranged grounds have a very pleasing effect. 
Next Hampton is in great repute as a summer resort with the people of 
St. John, and then Sussex, one of the rising towns of the province. 
Sussex is situated in the prolific Kennebaccasis Valley, and has some of 
the most famous of the New Brunswick farms. Some fair trout-fishing 
is to be had in this vicinity, as numerous lakes lie within easy distance 
from the village. Petitcodiac and Salisbury lead on to Moncton, the 
centre from which the busy operations of the Intercolonial system are 
controlled. Moncton is essentially a railway town ; it contains the 
general offices and the shops of the company, and has a population of 
about five thousand. Here is the Petitcodiac River, which empties into 
Shepody Bay, the very head of the Bay of Fundy ; it is a continuation 
of the bay itself as far as Moncton, up which the waters of Fundy ascend 
with a "bore," which, to be more explicit, means an advancing wall of 
water six feet and more in height. This is worth seeing, and worth 



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respecting, too, if you are out in a boat and don't know how to manage- 
it. At Moncton diverging lines of rail reach Point Du Chene, whence 
steamers cross the Northumberland Straits to Prince Edward Island, 
while rail lines run down the great peninsula of Nova Scotia to Halifax, 
and other points which we shall reach later in description. Now, we 
journey northward over the long line of the Intercolonial Northern 
Division, which reaches Point Levi, opposite the ancient city of Quebec. 

From iNIoncton to the Miramichi, the railway passes through a country 
which presents no particular attraction to the eye. It is so far from the 
shore that none of its flourishing settlements are seen. The traveller- 
for this reason is apt to acquire a poor idea of the country. There is, 
however, a fine farming and fishing district all along the coast, and some- 
large rivers of which the head waters only are crossed. 

At Newcastle the Miramichi River is crossed, and at Chatham Junc- 
tion, passed just before reaching the river, a branch railway runs to 
Chatham-town, a few miles to the eastward. 

One whose time is limited need not wander far from Chatham or 
Newcastle to find abundant sport. He is in a country whose annual 
export of salmon and bass is something incredible. Rod fishing may be 
had in any direction. There are, for special points, the Little Southwest 
and Renous ri\-ers with their many lakes, some of which have never 
been fully explored. Wherever in these streams there exists a high bank 
upon one side and a low beach upon the other, will be found a pool in. 
which salmon will be sure to resort. The Ox Bow, on the Little South- 
west, is a favorite spot for anglers. The Main Northwest is a particularly- 
good stream. These are branches of the Miramichi, a name which is- 
synonymous witli sport. Continue on to Bathurst, on the Baie Des 
Chaleurs ; this is one of the best laid out towns in the province, and a 
particularly pleasant spot, both for residents and visitors. There are- 
numerous pleasant drives following river roads, taking in the falls of the 
Tete-a-Gauche or Fairy River, three miles from town, and the rough 
waters of the Nepisiquit on the return. For falls, however, there is 
nothing in the vicinity to equal the Grand Falls of the Nepisiquit, twenty- 
one miles distant. There are two pitches, the total descent being 105 
feet, and the grandeur of the rocky heights by which the river is over- 
looked requires a personal inspection to form a true conception of the 
scene. 

This is a great region for salmon and trout. The former are taken in 
the Nepisiquit as far as the Grand Falls. At the Rough Water, three 
miles from Bathurst, they are particularly plenty, but good pools may- 
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.and plains through which we have come from Newcastle to Bathurst. 
Partridges are plenty in all parts of the country, and fly across the path 
of the traveller on every highway. The country is wild enough to suit 
all purposes of sport ; you can drop a line in any stream and something 
will rise to it, while skill with the rifle will bring proud trophies from 
these forest retreats. Guides are easily obtained in all this immense 
preserve, and are reliable men, who add much to the pleasure of the 
outing, relieving the sportsman of all care of the camp and equipage, as 
well as pointing out to their patron the favorite haunts of game. Much 
the same aspect of country is presented from Bathurst northward, except- 
ing that in all the distance one obtains amphibious glances of the sea as 



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the rails skirt the shore of the great Bale Des Chaleurs. This far northern 
inlet from the Gulf of St. Lawrence is ninety miles long, from fifteen to 
twenty miles broad, and bears neither rock nor hindrance to the safe 
passage of the largest ships. It presents a famous yachting course, and 
is renowned for its salt water fishing ; all of the numerous rivers which 
flow into the bay are good fishing streams ; sea trout abound in the 
estuaries and brook trout in the waters above The Restigouche and 
Metapedia. But it is at the head of this bay, the Bale Des Chaleurs, 
that the grand culminadon of salmon streams is reached in the Resti- 
gouche and Metapedia, names which are graven deep upon the hearts 
•of all true anglers. Here huge forty-pound salmon lurk to test the 



SEA COAST RESORTS. 6 1 

sportsman's skill. It was a Restigouche salmon which tipped the scale 
at fifty-four pounds, and numbers have been caught weighing forty-eight 
pounds each. Salmon fishing commences about the middle of May,, 
and all the rivers abound with the great and glorious fish. 

At Metapedia Station, on the Intercolonial, the Restigouche is crossed 
by the trains where the river is spanned by a beautiful railway bridge, 
over one thousand feet in length. In the flat-iron caused by the junc- 
tion of the two rivers, Metapedia and Restigouche, which interesting 
event occurs just below the station, stands the club-house of the Resti- 
gouche Salmon Club, a most advantageous site. 

Never were better facilities offered for the thorough enjoyment of 
sport than here, and hundreds of Anglers and Knights of the Rifle 
annually enjoy the hospitality of the club-houses, if they are unfortunate 
in not being club-members themselves. The house is close beside the 
railway station, its broad veranda fronting to the same as if to welcome 
the coming and speed the parting guest. 

Should one wish for the ideal wilderness, let him ascend this great 
river to its source, some two hundred miles away, or retire through some 
of its tributary arteries into the wilds of New Brunswick, hunting, fishing 
and camping, to their meeting with other offshoots of the Tobique or St. 
John. 

THE "portage." headwaters OF THE RESTIGOUCHE. 

The Restigouche forms part way the boundary between the Provinces 
of New Brunswick and Quebec. The river's course is most erratic, and 
with its arms produces, on paper, the appearance of a many limbed tree 
trunk, but then, the same is characteristic of all rivers in these provinces. 
Numerous lakes, as the Temiscouata and Squatook, may be reached 
through these forest avenues, — indeed, the by-paths are innumerable, as 
streams run in every direction. All of them are safe for canoe naviga- 
tion, so safe, indeed, that ladies with proper escort have ascended the 
St. John, crossed the narrow carry to the Restigouche and reverse. 

METAPEDIA : LAKE AND RIVER. 

A beautiful sheet of water is Lake Metapedia, the noblest sheet of 
inland water along the route. It lies among the highlands which border 
the River St. Lawrence, is sixteen miles in length and in parts reaches a 
width of five miles. Upon its clear waters the canoe of the sportsman 
glides through scenes elysian. Embosomed on its surface are islands 
rich in verdure, while the shores are luxuriantly decked with summer 
foliage. 




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The outlet of the lake is the femous Metapedia River, winding its way 
in graceful curves through its rich valley to the meeting with the Resti- 
gouche, and then the sea. 

If the clear waters of the lake were — and they justly are — noted for 
their salmon, so too the river partakes of the honors. It has 222 
rapids, great and small, fierce and wild, or gently rippling over beds of 
shining gravel. Salmon of the largest size are numerous, and here and 
there lurk those abnormally large fish, the killing of which with light fly- 
rod requires so much of skill and endurance, a pleasure long drawn out. 

Space forbids our devoting too much of that valued article to the 
hunting and fishing resorts of New Brunswick, in a description which is 
to include the whole eastern country from St. John to the Atlantic. 
Consequently, with a few pointers concerning the game laws and restric- 
tions required by the Provincial Government, we shall leave what remains 
for the tourist to find for himself. 

The regulations of the department allow of fly fishing for salmon from 
the 30th of April to the 31st of August in Quebec, and from the ist of 
March to the 15th of September in New Brunswick. In Nova Scotia 
(which we shall consider later, but not make a specialty of its fishing and 
hunting, preferring to generalize here) the best salmon rivers are on the 
Atlantic coast, though some which were formerly good have been "fished- 
out," or obstructed by dams. Where ^6-^;^/ fish-ways have been put in, 
the streams are not injured, but some of the old ways seem adapted for 
almost any purpose rather than the passage of salmon. One river, which 
does not empty on the Atlantic coast, deserves mention. It is the 
Shubenacadie, on which some fine sport has been had, and will doubtless 
be had in the future. Salmon cannot be fished for in the rivers to the 
westward of Halifax between the 31st of July and the ist of March, nor 
in the other rivers between the 15th of August and the ist of March. 
None of the rivers of Nova Scotia are leased. 

Trout are abundant in all the lakes, rivers and estuaries along the 
line of railway, and the fishing is a free one. The close season is from 
the ist of October to the ist of January. The sea trout found in the 
estuaries are fine fish, and, though abundant in very many places, they 
are found in their perfection in the Tabusintac and Escuminac. They 
are greedy biters, and, it is said, will take almost any kind of fly. The 
arms of the sea are numerous estuaries on the Atlantic coast of Nova 
Scotia, are particularly good places for these fish, which find their feed- 
ing-grounds among the sand flats and the bars and among the beds of 
sea-weed in shoal water. June and July are the best months for seeking 



SEA COAST I^ESORTS. 65 

them, though they may be found at all seasons. They are a very gamy 
tish, handsome in appearance and excellent eating. 

PROVINCIAL GAME LAWS. 

The Lower Provinces afford the best opportunities for moose and 
caribou hunting. The country lying back of the rivers on the northeast 
shore of New Brunswick, and the forests of Cumberland, Colchester, 
Halifax and Guysboro, in Nova Scotia, will give all the sport desired. 
Moose may now be killed in the Province of Quebec, after a long pro- 
hibitory season which came off September i, 1888. The close season 
now is from the ist of February to the ist of September. Caribou can 
also be killed in Quebec, and the season is the one last mentioned. 
The penalty for violation is from $5 to ^20. The close season for 
partridge is from the ist of January to the 15th of September ; for wood- 
cock, snipe, etc., from the 1st of February to the ist of September ; and 
for geese and ducks from the 15th of April to the ist of September. 
An hour before and after sunset are also set apart for the protection of 
snipe, woodcock, ducks and geese. Non-residents are required to take 
out a hunting license, the cost of which is $20, and the penalty for the 
non-compliance is double the amount of the fee. 

In New Brunswick, the close season for moose, caribou and deer is 
from the ist of February to the ist of August. The penalty is a fine of 
from $10 to $60. Hunting with dogs is forbidden, under a penalty of 
$20, and any person may kill dogs which are chasing, or can be proved 
to have chased, such game. Three moose, five caribou or five deer, are 
allowed to be killed by each paity in any one season. The flesh of such 
game must be carried out of the woods within ten days after the killing, 
with the exception of such as is killed during the latter part of December, 
when the flesh must be carried out within the first five days of January. 
The close season for partridge is from the ist of March to the 20th of 
September; for woodcock and snipe, to the 14th of August. Non- 
residents are required to take out a license, the cost of which is the same 
as in Quebec. 

In Nova Scotia the close season for moose and caribou is from the ist 
of February to the 15 th of September. No one person is allowed to 
take more than two moose and four caribou in any one year or season. 
The flesh is to be carried out of the woods within ten days after killing, 
and game killed during the latter part of January shall be carried out 
during the first five days of February. The penalty for the violation of 
these provisions is from $30 to ^50, and a fine of ^25 is imposed for 
hunting with dogs. The close season for partridge is between the first 



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days of January and October, and that of woodcock, snipe and teal 
between the first days of March and August. Woodcock must not be 
killed before sunrise or after sunset. Blue-winged duck must not be 
taken between the first days of April and August. The annual licenses 
for non-residents expire on the ist of August. They cost $30 each. 

The foregoing are some of the provisions of the Game Laws of the 
three provinces. There are other provisions, in regard to trapping, using 
nets for wild fowl, hunting with artificial lights, etc., but as no sportsman 
will resort to such practices, these provisions need not be quoted. 







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PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND AND CAPE BRETON THE GARDEN OF THE 

IMARITIME PROVINCES THE BRAS d'OR LAKES 

A RELIC OF THE LAST CENTURY. 

nPHE tourist, if in New Brunswick, taking the morning train from St. 
John arrives at Point du Chene about noon, and steps from the 
train at the end of the Government W^harf right on board the fine twin- 
screw steamer " Northumberland," where a good dinner is always ready. 
By the time this is partaken of, the noble vessel slips out from the wharf 
and speedily takes her way to Summerside, a distance of some forty 
miles. 

During the summer months the gulf is generally as smooth as a mill 
pond, and the good ship, as she glides through. the wat.er at the rate of 
seventeen miles an hour, scarce makes a motion to remind even the 
most sensitive to seasickness that their enemy is likely to visit them. 
Some amuse themselves with music, and a suspicion of amateurs 
generally fill the air with pieces rendered on the piano in the saloon, 
whilst the majority sit out on the deck watching the French settlements 
in New Brunswick as they are rapidly passed from Shediac to Cape Bauld. 
As this landmark and its church fade from view, Egmont Bay and Cape, 
on Prince Edward Island, with the green fields dotted with white houses, 
become distinct, Miscouche village and church on the highest land 
shows up nicely cut out on the sky line, while ahead the spires and 
buildings of Summerside grow nearer and nearer. A kw minutes more 
and the lighthouse, built out on an iron caisson at the entrance of the 
harbor, is passed, and, moving somewhat more slowly, with the whar\-es 
and thickly clustered houses of Summerside on the one side and the 
Island Park and Hotel on the other, the steamer reaches the railway 
wharf, and the train is found waiting for the passengers. In a few 
•minutes '■ All on board for Charlottetown " is heard, and all who had 
not arranged to stay in Summerside are whirling away through the 
greenest of green fields towards their destination. 

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Charlottetown covers a large space of land for its sixteen thousand 
inhabitants. The streets are straight and wide. There are several large 
squares kept open for the public, which have been planted with shade 
trees, flowers and shrubs, and laid out with nice walks and fountains. 
Queen Square — the largest — occupies a fine situation, and with its public 
buildings forming a line through its longest centre makes a fine appear- 
ance. In the centre is the Old Provincial Building of grey sandstone, 
flanked on either side, — east the Law Courts, a fine red brick building, 




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and on the west by the Dominion Post-Office, etc. etc. Further west 
comes the Market House, with its large hall above, and on the east of 
the Law Courts the old church of St. Paul's, situated in its green field, 
with the red sandstone parsonage (a proof of the suitability of the Island 
stone for building purposes) and the large schoolhouse behind it, both 
on the southern side of the church. Around the square the best of the 
stores are found, many of them as fine brick or stone buildings as can 
be found in any city of the same size. 



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These with the Y. M. C. A., Zion Church, Banks and St. Patrick's 
School pretty well fill two sides of the large square, the rest being with 
few exceptions smaller wooden buildings of older date, soon to be sup- 
planted by the more lasting brick structures which are rapidly growing 
in favor. 

The upper part of the town is mostly devoted to private residences, 
many of which are large and ornate and mostly placed in flower gardens 
with ornamental shrubbery, which give an air of comfort and refinement 
which is easily recognized. 

But until the tourist or pleasure-seeker has driven over the country 
roads of P. E. Island and strolled along its smooth, sandy shores, tracked 
up its little rivulets and seen the farms as they are, he cannot say 
he has seen P. E. I. They may have watched its shores from the deck 
of a steamer, admired the deep green of the cultivated fields, and won- 
dered at the numerous buildings and its many churches in which its 
fifty-four people to the mile live and worship ; but until he has travelled 
behind a good horse in a comfortable carriage over the hills, one after 
the other in every direction, he cannot form a correct opinion of what 
this little patch of new red sandstone thrust out into the gulf away from 
its older sisters really is. Small it undoubtedly is, but one hundred ar.d 
thirty-one miles long, with a width from two miles at Summerside to 
thirty-five miles in others, and containing one and a quarter million acres, 
is large enough to support its present one hundred and ten thousand 
inhabitants and send away vast quantities of agricultural produce to the 
Maritime Provinces of Canada and the United States. 

So much for the country ; now, what are its attractions as a summer 
resort ? 

A cool, invigorating atmosphere, the sea breezes passing over it from 
every cjuarter. The best of sea bathing, either in the smooth waters of 
the numerous harbors or amidst the rollers of the north shore. 

Boating in harbors or open gulf; sea and river fishing, of which 
mackerel and trout give the best sport. 

For shooting, plover, snipe, wild duck, rabbits, partridge, and that 
king of game — woodcock. 

Then for driving, riding, or the use of the bicycle, the island roads are 
smooth, free from stones and not too hilly ; and an ever changing, fresh 
looking country where no burnt-up grass lands or dreary stretches of 
barren, stony land mar the scene. 

Summerside, the western mart of the island, has grown up from the 
traffic with Point du Chene, and also enjoys quite a foreign trade, its 
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The population is about three thousand. It is situated amidst the 
very finest farming lands of the Province, and has within a few miles 
a number of thriving villages and settlements. 

Daily communication to and from the mainland, from both Charlotte- 
town and Summerside, by steamer makes access and egress easy, whilst 
telegraph, telephone and post-ofifices are to be found in every settle- 
ment or village of any size, so that the tired business man to whom rest 
and health are the annual summer requirements may keep full communi- 
cation with the outer world, and find P. E. Island a more restful retreat 
than the places so often chosen, and where multitudes gather and where 
cost of living and incentives to spend money almost equal city life. 

CAPE BREJON ISLAND. 

This is the point to which we have been leading, a country vying in 
interest with the last, and eminently worthy of a place beside it in this 
chapter. 

From New Glasgow a rail line called the Eastern Extension, which 
name, by the way, is no misnomer, runs to Port Mulgrave on the famous 
Strait of Canso. It is a short run, some ninety miles at best from the 
Pictou Wharf to Pirates Harbor on the .Strait, through Antigonish, called 
the prettiest village in Eastern Nova Scotia. Its neat, tidy buildings 
stand amid beautiful shade trees, — -and then its people ! If you want to 
find a type of able-bodied men, make your selection at random from the 
brawny Scots who go to make up the population of Eastern Nova Scotia, 
and especially Antigonish. 

The word Antigonish means Big Fish River ; the fishing, however, 
does not warrant the title. There are other towns passed by the traveller 
€11 route to Cape Breton but none which call for special remark, except 
Tracadie, where there is a splendid view of the gulf Here also is a 
Trappist Monastery and an Indian Reservation. 

After leaving Tracadie the train steams down the narrowing shores of 
Nova Scotia to the Strait of Canso — or Canseau — and the through 
passengers are taken by the train to Port Mulgrave, the deep water 
terminus, to embark upon the boat for the Island of Cape Breton. 

This narrow strait, some fourteen miles long and one mile in width, 
forms the great highway between the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the 
Atlantic. As a natural consequence when the extensive commerce between 
the two is narrowed down to these confining walls, the waters of the strait 
are thronged by steam and sail, adding to the natural beauty of the spot 
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is soon made, and Port Hawkesbury reached, upon the Cape Breton 
side. Here the traveller can take steamer, which makes daily connec- 
tions with trains, and lands passengers at the head of East Bay, ten miles 
from Sydney at the eastern extremity of the island, through the celebrated 
Bras D'Or— The Ann of Gold. 

This imprisoned sea, one hundred miles long and from ten rods to 
ten miles wide, divides the island of Cape Breton into two parts. For 
about fifty miles its waters are sheltered from the ocean, of which it 
forms a part, and in this length it expands into bays, inlets and romantic 
havens, with islands, peninsulas, and broken lines of coast, combining 
all to please. 





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High mountains and cliffs tower above the lake on every hand, at 
rhany points rising sheer from the water, casting their shadows down 
through the clear depths ; again rising in the distance, and with inter- 
vening fertile valleys between it and the lake, showing the white cottages 
of the farming and fisher folks who make home of this far eastern 
country. 

Cape Breton is rich in geological wonders. Its coal deposits, which 
underlie much of the island, and are supposed to extend in one con- 
tinuous vein one hundred and fifty miles long to the mines of Pictou, in 
Nova Scotia, are inexhaustible, and crop out in divers out-of-the-way places. 
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your reward will be a rich seam of coal. Many families have a natural 
coal bin in the cellar, provided when the continent was making. Fossils 
rare and curious are common upon the shores of Cape Breton in the 
coal strata, and wrenched therefrom by the sea. The professor might 
secure a wonderful addition to his cabinet from this vicinity. 

BRAS d'oR lake. 

In the passage of the Bras D'Or another notable geological formation 
is brought to view, where far off to the eastward glisten in the sunlight 
the heights of the Marble Mountain. Its product is a very fair white 
marble, which has not been extensively quarried, coal being more in the 
line of trade. 

We pass through the Bras D'Or to the towns which lie upon the sea- 
ward side of the isle. They are Sydney-old-town, noted for its coal 
mines, whose vast sunless depths extend for two miles under the ocean, 
and for its fine piers, from which are shipped annually immense quan- 
tities of Sydney coal, known wherever coal is burned, from the field 
which is estimated to contain a thousand million tons, not to include 
seams less than four feet in thickness, nor the vast quantities which lie 
under the sea between the islands of Cape Breton and Newfoundland. 
North Sydney is of more commercial importance than the old town. 
Within its harbor gather vessels of every class. It is a famous coaling 
station for ocean steamers, and a right lively litde port. 

Between Cape North and Cape St. Lawrence, upon the far northern 
extremity of the island, an ocean cable is landed in Aspy Bay and operated 
at North Sydney. It is but fifty miles from the North Cape to the 
Magdelen Islands, the cruising ground of the cod-fishing fleet to the 
Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Baddeck is another famous old town 
at the head of Ste. Ann's Bay, reached by steamer from Sydney. A few 
hours' journey from Baddeck will take one into a country where moose 
and caribou are plenty, and where the sportsman may either camp-out 
in the wilderness, or make his headquarters with some one of the well- 
to-do farmers of Inverness or Victoria county's occasional settlements. 

THE RUINS OF LOUISBURG. 

South of, and reached by narrow-gauge rail from Sydney, is Louisburg, 
on the Atlantic shore, where, upon the maps, it presents the appearance 
of being ever ready to drop off into space. 

The Louisburg of to-day has a population of about one thousand souls, 
and is situated just across the harbor from the old fortified town which 



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bears so important a part in history. The railroad fare from Sydney is 
but 75 cents, and all visitors to the island of Cape Breton should make 
the trip. The Louisburg Land Company's hotel affords fine accom- 
modations, and the site of old Louisburg may be easily reached and the 
lines of its old fortifications traced. 

Nearly a century has elapsed since the fall of Louisburg, and nothing 
remains to mark this stronghold of the French in America save the 
relics of a structure which cost the treasury of Louis XV. thirty millions 
of livres, and the labor of twenty-five years to erect. Its walls of stone, 
which made a circuit of two and one half miles, were thirty-six feet in 
height, and of a uniform thickness of forty feet. Fifteen thousand people 
were gathered in and about these walls ; six thousand troops were locked 
within this fortress when the gate-key turned in the mammoth lock. 

The foundations of the town were laid in the early part of the last 
century, just after the death of Louis XIV., and named in honor of the 
departed monarch. Nova Scotia proper had been granted here and 
there to adventurous would-be colonists and their leaders, but the ancient 
island Cape Breton still owed allegiance to the lilies of France. Of all 
the harbors which the island bore, this was selected as the most advan- 
tageous, and here was built the city wliich was designed to be the key to 
the Western Hemisphere. 

"It was environed," says Belknap, "two miles and a half in circum- 
ference, with a rampart of stone from thirty to thirty-six feet high, and a 
ditch eight feet wide. There were six bastions and batteries, containing 
embrasures for one hundred and forty-eight cannon. On an island at 
the entrance of the harbor was planted a battery of thirty cannon, carry- 
ing twenty-eight-pound shot, and at the bottom of the harbor was a 
grand, or royal battery, of twenty-eight cannon, forty-two pounders, and 
two eighteen pounders. On a high cliff opposite the island-battery 
stood a lighthouse, and within this point, secure from all winds, was a 
careening wharf and a magazine of naval stores." 

The entrance to the town was over a drawbridge, spanning the moat, 
near which was a circular battery mounting sixteen fourteen-pounder 
guns, and yet, with all their show of arms, Louisburg, the naval depot 
of France in America, the nucleus of its military power, the protector of 
its fisheries, the Sebastopol of the New World, fell before the undis- 
ciplined troops of the colonies of Massachusetts, Connecticut and New 
Hampshire, led by William Pepperel, a fish and shingle merchant of 
IMaine. 

In three years after its capture by the colonial troops Louisburg was 
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passed and a greater fleet, a more numerous army and heavier armament 
besieged its almost impregnable walls, when, in 1758, the English under 
Amherst, Boscawen and AVolfe gathered no less than twenty-three ships 
of war, eighteen frigates, and sixteen thousand land forces, with a pro- 
portionable train of cannons and mortars, against the city. It fell after a 
two months' storm of fire and iron, of rocket, shot, and shell — fell, and 
the lilies of France waved over Louisburg no more. 

Possessed a second time of the fortress city, and the conquest of 
Canada achieved, England's edict went forth that Louisburg should be 
destroyed. It required two years and the aid of gunpowder to complete 
the work of demolition, but in the end it was thoroughly done and the 



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once proud city, which had borne a monarch's title, sank into a shapeless 
ruin. 

To-day, the tourist stands amid the theatre of such events and with 
his opened history marks the scene of struggle. Here lay the frigates 
of Louis ; opposite, where the parapets of stone are yet visible, was the 
grand battery of forty guns. There the great seventy-four blew up. 
This ground has shuddered day and night for continued weeks at the 
roar of battle ; and here are we, summer travellers from the busy marts 
of trade, day-dreaming in this bit of Europe in America. 

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page m the summer literature of the Northeast. Many of their points 
and features must necessarily be omitted in the brief chapter devoted to 
them in the descriptive of the whole Maritime Provinces ; and it is with 
the hope that the little which has been said will create a desire for a 
personal visit, that we leave their island shores for the lower peninsula 
of Nova Scotia. 




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THE LOWER PENINSULA OF NOVA SCOTL\ HALIFAX, THE METROPOLIS 

OF THE PROVINCE AND ITS FORTIFICATIONS THE 

ANNAPOLIS VALLEY YARMOUTH. 

nr^O REACH Halifax, and through it the "Land of Evangeline," by 
the rail-route, we take the diverging line from Truro, which has 
before been referred to as tipping abruptly down the peninsula of Nova 
Scotia, and follow through fertile fields and upland intervale, a transition, 
indeed, from the rugged scenery of Cape Breton, until this fine farming 
district is lost amid the desolate rocks which abound, to the exclusion of 
all other crops, at Windsor Junction, fourteen miles from Halifax. 

At this point the Windsor and Annapolis Railway forms a junction 
with the Intercolonial, and "all change" for the run down the Annapolis 
Valley to Annapolis, on the famous '' Basin." It is twelve miles by 
steamer through the Basin to Digljy, where another line, the Western 
Counties Railway, leads to Yarmouth at the extreme of the peninsula, 
and the veritable jumping-off place of oft quotation. 

Both the AVindsor and Annapolis and Western Counties roads skirt 
the Bay of Fundy shore of Nova Scotia, linking its towns to the exclu- 
sion of the Atlantic coast line, which has its only railway point in Halifax. 
After leaving Windsor Junction the approach to the city of Halifax is 
along the shores of the famous Bedford Basin, upon which the city is 
situated — a noble marine view which deepens in interest as the train 
nears the journey's end. 

Halifax, from the very nature of its position, the most eastern city of 
its size upon the Western Hemisphere, is, in name, familiar to all Amer- 
icans, and is oftener in the mouths of man, — as a mild sort of invective, 
— than many a Western metropolis. 

One could go farther, however, and fare worse than being consigned 
to Halifax, for this is the most thoroughly British city on the continent, 
and, as such, holds much of interest to the American tourist. It is a 
garrison town as well as a naval station, and one meets in the streets the 
regulation Red-Coats and Blue-Jackets at every turn. Everything sug- 
gesting impending hostilities, " the pomp and circumstance of glorious 
war," encounters the peaceful tourist upon street-corners, while the- 
citadel towers upon the summit of the hill-city of Halifax. 

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Let us climb this hill, and from the great stone fortress look out over 
the broad bay 256 feet below. 

Like nearly all large cities upon the seaboard, the site of Halifax is a 
peninsula, with the sea upon the east and west. To the south and east 
is the harbor, which narrows as it reaches the upper end of the city and 
expands again into Bedford Basin, which affords ten miles of safe 
anchorage. The approach to the city is strongly fortified, as well becomes 
this British stronghold. 

View from the citadel the magnificent bay, where vessels, flying every 
flag which protects a floating commerce, are at anchor. Let your vision 
extend over the islands to the wide ocean beyond, bounded only by the 
horizon's line. Turn to the scene presented inland, where stretch away 
vast verdant plains dotted with settlements and cottages, with now and 
then glimpses of blue water, and you will return to the town below, fairly 
impressed with Halifax and its surroundings. 

The fortifications upon McNab's and George's Islands, as well as the 
various forts around the shore, are all well worth a visit after the citadel. 
Visitors are readily allowed to inspect the works, but sketches or pencil 
notes of the defences will not be permitted by the authorities. After a 
visit the tourist \\nll have no doubts of the exceeding strength of Halifax 
over all the cities of x-\merica. 

Hospitality is a virtue particularly grateful to the stranger tourist, and 
hospitality abounds among the good people of Halifax, even for the 
rebellious Yankee, in spite of the Loyalist forefathers of the city. The 
hotels afford fine accommodations, with plenty of solid accompaniments 
• — -the viands of Merry England, specialties partaken of so generously 
by the characters of Dickens — which give an appetite on the reading 
merely of those delightful spreads — washed down by generous portions 
of right good H'inglish H'ale. 

Livery outfits, for the many delightful drives out and about the city, 
are procurable at modest rates of hire, and boats of every description 
for the exploration of the Bedford Basin may always be had. 

There is much to be seen inside the city. The Province Buildings, 
new and old ; the Museum, the Public Gardens, the Fish-Market, and 
the many public institutions, all open to inspection and all worthy a 
visit. Halifax has direct rail and steamship connection for aU parts of 
the world, and marks the point of shortest ocean passage between 
America and Europe. It is the port of call for many lines crossing the 
Atlantic, and without delay one may go to Liverpool, Glasgow, the West 
Indies, New York, Boston, Portland, Newfoundland, or Quebec. If you 
desire a sea voyage, choose ! 



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THE PENINSULA OF NOVA SCOTIA. 

Bordering the Atlantic, from Yarmouth upon the south to Halifax in 
the centre and beyond to the Strait of Canso, a rugged coast line with 
deep bays, numerous peninsulas and islands, receives the almost mid- 
ocean waves. It is a wild shore, where fishing is extensively carried on, 
the numerous arms of the sea admirably suiting the occupation of the 
people. These coast settlements are linked with Halifax by water- 
routes ; the rail is yet to come. 

Back from the coast line the country abounds with heavy forests, and 
is abundantly watered by lakes and streams. Moose and caribou roam 
these forest wilds, and may be found within easy distance from the 
settlements. The fishing is excellent, and from June to September the 
catch of sea trout and salmon cannot fail to satisfy all. 






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BAY OP^ FUNDY S.S. CO. TO DIGBY, ANNAPOLIS, AND THE LAND OF 
EVANGELINE THE END OF GRAND PRE. 

'T^HE short route to the Garden of the Provinces — the Annapohs 
Valley — is via the Steamer Monticello (running in connection 
with the route we have been following), which leaves St. John at 7.30 
A. M. daily, Sunday excepted, crossing the Bay of Fundy to Annapolis 
and Digby, there to meet trains of the Windsor and Annapolis and the 
Western Counties railways running north and south on the peninsula. 

The City of Monticello is a first-class side-wheel steamer, finely fitted 
and furnished, combining luxury and comfort obtainable only on this 
class of steamboats. 

The passage of the steamer from the Bay of Fundy into the Annapolis 
Basin is through the narrow Digby Strait, with a range of high hills upon 
either side. The whole coast from Brier Island, at the southern entrance 
of the Bay of Fundy, to Blomidon on the Basin of Minas, a distance of 
one hundred and thirty miles, is protected by these rocky barriers, which 
here divide in a narrow waterway. After passing the strait this arm of 
the sea broadens into the great land-locked basin. The first stop of the 
steamer is at Digby, then on to Annapolis, twelve miles distant, and 
about midway the beautiful inland sea. The steamboat journey between 
the two towns is full of interest. 



ANNAPOLIS ROYAL. 

This is the oldest European settlement in /America, north of the Gulf of 
Mexico. It was the ancient capital of Acadia. \Ye have noted it before 
as the first landing place of the Des Monts expedition in 1604, who 
afterward visited Passamaquoddy, passing the luckless winter on Douchet's 
Island in the St. Croix. The town was then Port Royal ; changed a 
century later, after the English conquest, to Annapolis in honor of their 
queen. The early settlement was farther down shore than the present 
town, but all about is historic ground. Where now all is peace and 
beauty, the blast of war's great organs rent the sky, in the early days of 
conquest, when the roses of England supplanted the lilies of France in 
the possession of these shores. Port Royal has shared the fate of Louis- 
burg and other Acadian strongholds, and its fort has become a ruin. 

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It is here, at Annapolis, tliat we take the train through "the Valley," 
to the historic ground about the Basin of Minas. A valley, indeed, and 
in every sense of the word. It lies between the South Mountain range 
and the North Mountains which guard the coast line. Along its entire 
length and directly through its centre extend the rails of the Windsor and 
Annapolis Railway, for mile after mile passing vast orchards, white with 
apple blossoms, or laden with tempting fruit. The finest of orchards, 
fair farms, and fertile fields stretching away to the mountain borders. 
Such is the landscape. The air is fragrant with growing crops, and the 
eye never wearies with the charmingly rural scene. 

BLOMIDON, N. S. 

At the farther end of the valley, seventy miles from Annapolis, lies the 
tragic theatre of events which has given us Evangeline. Here are the 
idyllic meadows of Grand Pre, protected from the sea by dikes, erected 
by the sturdy French peasantry of long ago. Yonder Blomidon rises 
from the sea, silent guardian over the Basin of Minas, which curving 
inland, one magnificent crescent of sixty miles depth, bathes the Grand 
Prairies of Acadian Land. Here lived and loved, one hundred and fifty 
years ago, a simple people in a state of rural felicity which seems incon- 
sistent with the frailties and passions of human nature. Among them 
real misery was unknown, and benevolence anticipated the demands of 
poverty. Every misfortune was relieved before it could be felt, without 
ostentation and without meanness. It was a society of brethren, every 
individual of which was ready to give, and to receive, what he thought the 
common right of mankind. In 1755 the colony numbered a population 
of eighteen thousand souls. 

Here, at the Gaspereau's mouth, on the shores of the Basin of Minas, 
was situated the village of Grand Pr^. Ascend some one of the many 
elevations of the Gaspereau and look to-day upon the scene. 

A summer pastoral, rich meadow lands, dikes in the distance, and 
detached cottages in place of the hundreds of thatched roofs which 
once covered the exiled Acadians. Few traces remain of the old French 
village ; the dikes still shut out the sea, and the road taken by the exiles 
on their sad way to the King's ships may still be followed by the tourist ; 
other than this — 

" Not but tradition remains, of the beautiful village of Grand Pre." 

Assuming that the reader is by this time surfeited with description of 
sea and shore, highland and lowland scenery, which must at best employ 
many stereotyped phrases, let us escape for a time to relate 



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THE STORY OF THE ACADIANS. 

By the treaty of Aix La Chapelle, Cape Breton was ceded to the 
French and Nova Scotia to the Enghsh. The French colonists in the 
AnnapoHs Valley had taken the oath of fidelity to the English Crown, 
but they refused to take the oath of allegiance which forced them to 
bear arms against their countrymen and the Indians, who had always 
been their firm friends. 

This stand was particularly distasteful to the Elnglish colonists of New 
England and Nova Scotia who were engaged in the fierce border wars 
with the allied French and Indians, and their "sullen neutrality" was 
considered just cause of offence. 

Accordingly, a new oath of allegiance was tendered by King George 
II., by which all Acadians were required to become loyal subjects of the 
British Crown, and as such to bear arms against the allied forces of 
countrymen and friends. 

The people revolted, and three hundred of the younger and braver 
among them took up arms against their oppressors. At the fort of Beau 
Sejour the little band made their gallant stand, and were defeated. In 
vain the majority protested that this act of the {q^n was contrary to their 
wishes, contrary to their peaceful habits, and beyond their control. The 
whole Acadian people were by this rash act placed under the ban. 

The edict went forth. All were to be transported from their homes 
and fertile fields, banished, dispersed among the various British colonies 
to the south. To carry out this plan, five transports and a force of New. 
England troops were dispatched to the Basin of Minas. Arrived there 
a proclamation, so ambiguous in its nature as to give no hint of its object, 
was issued to the people of the district of Grand Pre ; it read as follows : — 

To the inliabitants of the District of Grand Pre, Minas, River Canard, 
etc., as well ancient, as young men and lads: 
"Whereas, his Excellency, the Governor, has instructed us of his late 
resolution, respecting the matter proposed to the inhabitants, and has 
ordered us to communicate the same in person, his Excellency being 
desirous that each of them should be fully satisfied of his Majesty's 
intentions, which he has also ordered us to communicate to you, such as 
they have been given to him. We therefore order and strictly enjoin, 
by these presents, all of the inhabitants, as well of the above-named 
District, as of all other districts, both old men and young men, as well 
as all the lads of ten years of age, to attend at the church of Grand Pr6 
on Friday, the fifth instant, at three of the clock in the afternoon, that 
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declaring that no excuse will be admitted on any pretense whatever, on 
pain of forfeiting goods and chattels, in default of real estate. Given at 
Grand Pre, second of September, 1755, and twenty-ninth of his Majesty's 
reign. JOHN WINSLOW, 

Colonel Commanding." 

Four hundred and eighteen able-bodied men heeded the summons. 
These were shut into the church, and Colonel Winslow, placing himself 
with his officers in the centre, addressed them. 

You have read the remainder in Longfellow's version of the tale. 
The poor people, unconscious of any crime, petitioned Colonel W'inslow 
for leave to visit their families, and entreated him to detain a part only 
of the prisoners as hostages, urging with tears and prayers their intention 
to fulfill their promise of returning after taking leave of their kindred and 
consoling them in their distress and misfortune. The answer of Colonel 
Winslow to this petition was to grant leave of absence to twenty only for 
a smgle day. This sentence they bore with fortitude and resignation, 
but when the hour of embarkation arrived, in which they were to part 
with their friends and relatives without a hope of ever seeing them again, 
and to be dispersed among strangers, whose language, customs, and 
religion were opposed to their own, the weakness of their human nature 
prevailed, and they were overpowered with a sense of their miseries. 
The young men were first ordered to go on board one of the vessels. 
This they instantly and peremptorily refused to do, declaring that they 
would not leave their parents, but expressing a willingness to comply 
with the order, provided they were permitted to embark with their 
families. The request was rejected, and the troops ordered to fix bayonets 
and advance toward the prisoners, a motion which had the effect of 
producing obedience on the part of the young men, who forthwith com- 
menced their march. The road from the chapel to the shore — just one 
mile in length — was crowded with women and children, who, on their 
knees, greeted them as they passed with their tears and their blessings, 
while the prisoners advanced with slow and reluctant steps, weeping, 
praying, and singing hymns. This detachment was followed by the 
seniors, who passed through the same scene of sorrow and distress. In 
this manner was the whole male part of the population of the District of 
Minas put on board the five transports stationed in the river Gaspereau, 
and thus were the remainder of the 18,000 Acadians sent into a similar 
exile. Who has not followed them in fancy, and through the beautiful 
verse of Evangeline. 

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left. The author of " Sparrowgrass Papers " — old-timers will remember 
them with pleasure — says in description of the Maritime Provinces : 

'' Much as we may admire the various bays and lakes, the inlets, 
promontories, and straits, the mountains and woodlands of this rare 
corner of creation — and, compared with it, we can boast of no scenery so 
beautiful — the Valley of Grand Pr6 transcends all the rest in the Province. 
Only our valley of Wyoming may match it, both in beauty and tradition. 
One has its Gertrude, the other its Evangeline. But Campbell never saw 
Wyoming. Longfellow never visited the Basin of Minas." 

It is true the poet never visited the scene which his verse has made 
famous. It is said he feared his high ideal would become wrecked upon 
reality ; but he had no need ; he would have missed the forest primeval, 
but in all else the scene is in keeping with his fancy. 

GRANDE FINALE. 

" This is Acadia — this the land 

That weary souls have sighed for ; 
This is Acadia, this the land 

Heroic hearts have died for ; 
Yet, strange to tell, this promised land 
Has never been applied lor ! " 

Thus says an old song, to which we must take exception in its final 
line. It has been, and is, applied for by an ever-increasing number of 
summer tourists who have found that here can the greatest amount of 
enjoyment and recreation be had at a moderate cost. The very idea 
of the old song explains the chief charm which the Provinces hold for 
summer sojourners from "The States." It is Acadia — fresh, rural, 
pastoral. The same conditions exist, among its rural types, as fifty years 
ago. Its very season is an oddity to the American guest, who may 
again enjoy the "garden truck," fruits and flowers of spring and early 
summer by a mid-summer trip to Acadia. 

Phenomenally moderate — though not cheap in one sense of the word, 
— are all the accompaniments to thorough enjoyment of an outing passed 
beneath provincial skies. Hotel rates are low, and carriage hire does 
not deplete the pocket-book to an extent which renders that delightful 
pastime a thing to be indulged in sparingly. Good guides may be had 
in all hunting and fishing regions at "a dollar a day and found." Canoes 
and boats are plenty, while sail and steam are ready at every point of 
vantage to aid the tourist-traveller. 

When these are coupled with cool, bracing air, clear skies, and delight- 
ful scenery, in a country colored by history and filled with the interest of 



SEA COAST A' A SO ATS. 



87 



tradition, song, and story, where every prospect is new and delightfully 
foreign to an American mind and fancy, it is not wonderful that the 
old song becomes inapplicable to one of the finest vacation regions 
extant. 







Local Passenger Fares. 



OflE WRY AJMD KHTUHH- 



FROM BOSTON. 



Boston to Annapolis, N. S., via St. John 
" Calais, Me. 

" l^igby, N. S., via St. John 

Eastport, Me. 
" Portland, Me. 

" Robbinston, Me. 

St. Andrews, N. B. 

St. John, N. B. 



FROM PORTLAND. 



Portland to Annapolis, N. S., v 
" Calais, Me. . 

Digby, N. S. 
" Eastport, Me. 

" Robbinston, Me. 

" St. Andrews, N. B 

St. John, N. B. 



ia St. John 



ONE WAY. 



FROM OTHER POINTS. 



Calais to St. John, N. B. 
Robbinston to St. John, N. B. 
St. Andrews to St. John, N. B. 
Eastport to St. John, N. B. 



RETURN. 

^9-75 
8.00 
9.00 

7-50 
2.00 
8.00 
8. 00 
8.00 



?S-5o 


$9-75 


4.00 


7.00 


5.00 


9.00 


3-50 


6.50 


4.00 


7.00 


4.00 


7.00 


4.00 


7.00 



$1.50 


^2.50 


1.50 


2.50 


1.50 


2.50 


1.50 


2.25 



The above one-way rates are for limited tickets. Unlimited tickets are sold 
at an advance. Return tickets are good during the year in which they are purchased. 
The same passenger rates will be in force during the time this Company runs six 
trips per week {see Summer Time-Table, first cover), via the Boston & Maine R.R. 
to Portland, thence by steamer, as by steamer direct ; and tickets reading " by 
steamer " will be accepted via the Boston & Maine R.R. Also, tickets reading " via 
the R.R." to Portland, thence by steamer, will be accepted by direct steamer from 
Boston. 



TARIFF OF RATES. 

SUBJECT TO SLIGHT CHANGES WITHOUT NOTICE. 



DESTINATION. 



^MHERSr, N. S. 

do. and Rtturn. . . . 
Andover, N. B 

do. and Return. . . , 
Annapolis, N. S 

do. and Return. . . . 
Antigonish, N. S 

do. and Return . . . . 
Auburn, Me. (M. C. R.R.) 

do. (G. T. R'y) 

Augusta, Me 

Aylesford, N. S 

do. and Return . . . . 
gADDECK, C. B 

do. and Return. . . . 

Bath, Me 

Bathurst, N. B 

do. and Return .... 

Beaver Bank 

Berwick, N. S 

do. and Return. . . . 

Bethel, Me 

Bethlehem, N. H 

Bridgetown, N. S 

do. and Return. . . . 

Brunswick, Me 

QALAIS, Me 

do. and Return. . . . 

Caledonia Corner, N. S 

Cambridge, N. S 

do. and Return. . . . 
Campbellton, N. B 

do. and Return .... 
Campobello, N. B 

do. and Return. . . . 

Caribou, N. B. (via River and Rail). 

do. and Return .... 
Charlottetown, P. E. I 

do. and Return. . . . 
Chatham, N. B 

do. and Return. . . . 

Crawford House, N. H 

J)ALHOUSIE, N. B 

do. and Return. . . . 
Digby, N. S 

do. and Return. . . . 
Dorchester, N. B 

do. and Return. . . . 
]5ASTPORT, Me 

do. and Return. . . . 
Ellershouse, N. S 

do. and Jveturn. . . . 

pABYAN'S, N. H 

Falmouth, N. S 

do. and Return. . . . 



From Boston. 



Unlimited. Limited, 



$8.25 

13 65 
S.So 

14.45 
6.50 
9-75 

10.75 

17.40 
2.00 
2.00 
3.00 

7-30 
12.10 

13-50 

22.60 

2.25 

9-50 

15-45 

8.70 

7 45 
12.35 
3-65 
5-55 
6.50 
1 1 .00 
2.00 

5-50 
8.00 
9.00 
7.60 
12.60 

ID. 50 
17.00 

5-25 

8.00 

9.50 

15.50 

9-50 

16.25 

9.00 

14-75 

4-5° 

10.45 

16.95 
6.00 
9.00 

7-75 
12.85 
5.00 
7.i;o 
8.80 
14.65 

4-75 
8. 25 
14.00 



^5-50 
10.25 



6.80 
M.oo 



8.20 
6-95 



6.00 



4.50 



8.00 
7. 10 



4.25 



5.00 



4.00 
's'oo' 



7-75 



From Portland. 



Unlimited. Limited 



$7-75 

12.65 

8.30 

13-45 
6. 50 

9-75 
10.25 
16.40 



6.80 



13.00 
21 .60 



9.00 

14.45 

8.20 

6 95 

11-35 



6.00 
10.00 



5.00 

7.00 

8.50 

7. 10 

II .60 

10.00 

16.00 

4-75 
7.00 
9.00 

14.50 
9.00 

15.25 
8.50 

13-75 



9-95 

15-95 

6.00 

9.00 

7-25 
11.85 

4-50 

6. 50 

8.30 

13-65 



7-75 
1 3 . 00 



»5-5o 
9-75 



6.30 
12.50 



7.70 
6-45 



5-5° 



4.00 



7.50 
6.60 



3-75 



5.00 



3-5° 
7.50 



7-25 



TARIFF OF RATES. — Continued. 



DESTINATION. 



Fort Fairfield, Me. (via River and Rail). 

do. and Return 

Fredericton, N. B. (via River) 

do. and Return 



From Boston. 



Unlimited. Limited 



Q.RAND PRE, N. S 

do. and Return 

JJALIFAX, N. S. (via I. C. R'y) 

do. and Return 

do. (via W. A. R'y).... 

do. and Return 

Hantsport, N. S 

do. and Return 

Har. Au Bouche 

Harcourt, N. B 

do. and Return 

Heatherton 

Hopewell 

Houlton, Me 

J^ENTVILLE, N. S 

do. and Return 

Kingston, N. S 

do. and Return 



LAWRENCETOWN, N. S 

do. and Return. . . . , 

Lewiston, Me , 

Liverpool, N. S , 

Londonderry, N. S 

do. and Return 

]y[ECHANIC FALLS, Me 

Metapedia, N. B , 

do. and Return. . . . , 

Meteghan, N. S 

Middleton, N. .S ; 

do. and Return. . . . , 
Moncton, N. B , 

do. and Return 

Montreal, P. Q (G. T. R'y) 

do. (via M. C. R'v). 
Mt. Uniacke, N. S \.. 

do. and Return 

Mulgrave, N. S 

do. and Return , 

J^EW CASTLE, N. B 

do. and Return 

New Glasgow, N. S 

do. and Return 

New Mills, N. B 

do. and Return 

North Conway, N. H 

Norway, Me 

OLD ORCHARD, Me 

O.xford, N. S 

do. and Return 

PARADISE, N. S 

do. and Return. . . , 
Peticodiac, N. B 

do. and Return 

Pictou, N. S 

do. and Return 



$9.20 

15-05 
5.50 
9.50 
8.00 
3-45 
9-5° 
5-50 
9.80 

5-50 



9-5° 

7-75 
7'75 
3.00 
7.05 

'•75 
6.70 

i-=5 
2.00 



9-25 
5.10 
2.30 
0.70 
7-35 
6.75 
6. 85 
r.50 

7-15 
2.00 
S.50 
S.50 
9. 10 
5-15 
1-55 
7-75 
8.80 
4.40 

9-5° 

5-5° 



6.45 
3-45 
2-95 
1-35 
8.80 

4-50 
6.60 

I. ID 

6. 50 
1 .00 
9-50 
5 50 



^7-5° 
9.00 



8.20 

7-75 



II .00 



10.60 
9.00 
6. 50 
7.25 



6-55 
'6'. 20" 



9.00 
9.00 



6.2s 
6.35 



8.25 
II .00 



9.00 



6. 10 



From Portland. 



Unlimited. Limited 



9.00 



14.05 
5.00 
S.50 
7-50 
2-45 
9.00 



7-55 
2.30 
0.60 
9.00 

7.25 

7-25 
2.00 

6.55 
0-75 
6.20 
0.25 



8.75 
4. 10 



0.20 

6.35 
6.25 

6.35 
o. 50 
6.65 
1 .00 



8.60 
4.15 
1.05 

6-75 
8.30 

3-40 
g.oo 
4.50 
9.60 

5-45 



8.30 

3-5° 
6. 10 
o. 10 
6.00 
0.00 
9.00 
4-50 



$7.00 
"S^so" 



7.70 

7-25 

10.50 



10. 10 

8.50 
6.00 
6-75 



6.05 

5.70 



8.50 
8.50 



5-75 
5-85 



7-75 
10.50 



8.50 



5.60 



8.50 



TARIFF OF RATES. — Continued. 



DESTINATION. 



Poland Springs 

Portland, Me 

do. and Return . . . . . . 

do. and Return (Rail).. . 
Port Williams, N. S 

do and Return 

Presque Isle, Me. (via River and Rail). . 
Profile House, N. H 

do. and Return 

Pt. Du Chene, N. B 

do. and Return 

Pt. Havvkesbury, C. B 

do. and Return 

Pt. Hastings 

do. and Return 

J^OBBINSTON, Me 

do. and Return 

Round Hill, N. S 

do. and Return 

gACKVn.LE, N. B 

do. and Return 

Salisbury, N. B 

do. and Return 

Stewiacke, N. S 

do. and Return 

Straits Canso, N. S. (Pt. Hawksbury).. . 

do. and Return 

Summerside, P. E. I 

do. and Return 

Sussex, N. B 

do. and Return 

Sydney, C. B. (all Rail) 

do. and Return 

'THOMPSON, N. S 

do. and Return 

Tracadie, N. S 

Truro, N. S 

do. and Return 

-yyATERVILLE, N. S 

do. and Return 

Wentworth, N. S 

do. and Return 

Weymouth, N. S 

Whycocomaugh, C. B 

Wilmot, N. S 

do. and Return 

Windsor, N. S 

do. and Return 

Wolfville, N. S 

do. and Return 

Woodstock, N. B. (via Calais) 

YARMOUTH, N. S 

do. and Return 



From Boston. 



Unlimited. Limited 



'2-75 
1 .00 
2.00 
4.00 

7-95 
3.20 
9.90 

6-55 
r. 10 



2.50 
2.00 
7.90 
2.05 

8. GO 

5.50 

8.00 

6.50 

1 .00 



3-35 
6.80 
1 .40 

9-50 
5.50 
2.00 
7.90 



4.00 



8.75 
8.85 
4.50 

1-25 
9.50 
5.50 

7-50 
2.50 
9.00 
4.80 
6.80 
4.40 
6-95 
1-55 
S.55 
4.00 
8.00 
3-30 
7-75 
8-45 
2-75 



$3-50 
7-4S 



7.50 
II . 10 



II. 15 

4.50 



6.00 
's io' 



9.00 

II . ID 



8.25 
'5.80 
12.00 



10.80 
8.94 



7.00 



5.80 

13-50 

6.45 



7-75 
7.50 



6.50 
6. 50 



From Portland. 



Unlimited. Limited 



$7 '45 

I2.2Q 

9.40 



11.50 

11.50 

16.90 

11.55 

17.00 

5.00 

7.00 

6.00 

10.00 



12.35 
6.30 
10.40 
9.00 
14.50 
11.50 
16.90 



13.00 
9. CO 



17-75 

S-35 

13-50 

IO-75 

9.00 
14.50 

7.00 
II .50 

8.50 
13.80 

6.30 
13.90 

6-45 
10.55 

8.05 
13.00 

7-50 

12.30 

7.25 

7-95 

11-75 



>-95 



7.00 
10.60 



10.65 
4.00 



5-50 
7:60 



8.50 
10.60 



7-75 

5-30 

11.50 



10.30 
8.44 



6.50 



5-30 
13.00 

5-95 



7-25 
•J, 00 



6.00 
6.00 



For International S. S. Co.'s Local Rates See Paare 89. 



92 



MISCELLANEOUS TOURS. 



Parties of ten or more travelling at one time will be furnished with special 
rates, upon application to the General Agent of the Company, Boston, Mass. 



No I. Annapolis and Return. $9-75 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co. ; St. John to Annapolis by Ilay of I'undy 
S. S. Co. ; return same route. 
No. 2. Antigonish, N. S., and Return. $17.40 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to Antigonish by Intercolonial R'y; 
return same route. 
No. 3. Calais, Me., and Return. $8.00 

Boston to Eastport by International S. S. Co. ; Eastport to Calais by Frontier S. B. Co. ; 
return same route. 
No. 4. Campobello, N. B., and Return. $8.00 

Boston to Eastport by International S. S. Co.; Eastport to Campobello by Campobello S. 
B. Co. ; return same route. 
No. 5. Charlottetown, P. E. I., and Return. $16.25 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co. ; St. John to Pt. Du Chene by Intercolonial 
R'y; Pt. I Hi Chene to Summerside by Charlottetown Steam Nav. Co.; Summerside to 
Charlottetown by P. E. I. R'y; return same route. 
No. 6. Charlottetown, P. E. I., and Return. $20.00 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to Pi. Du Chene by Intercolonial 
R'y; Pt. Du Chene to Summerside by Charlottetown Steam Nav. Co.; Summerside to 
Charlottetown by P. E. I. R'y; Charlottetown to Pictou by Charlottetown Steam Nav. 
Co.; Pictou to Plalifax by Intercolonial R'y; Halifax to Boston by Canada Atlantic 
S. S. Line. 
No. 7. Digby, N. S., and Return. $9.00 

Boston to St. John by International S. .S. Co.; St. John to Digby by Bay of Fundy S. S. 
Co. ; return same route. 
No. 8. Eastport, Me., and Return. $7-5° 

Boston to Eastport by International S. S. Co.; Eastport to Boston by International S. S. 
Co. 
No. 9. Fort Fairfield and Return. $15-05 

Boston to St. John by Internationals. S. Co.; St. John to Fredericton by Star Line 
Steamers; Fredericton to Ft. Fairfield by Canadian Pacific R'y; return same route. 
No. 10. Halifax and Return. $15-50 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co. ; St. John to Annapolis by Bay of Fundy S. 
S. Co.; Annapolis to Halifax by Windsor & Annapolis R'y; return same route. 

No. II. Halifax and Return. $15-5° 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to Halifax by Intercolonial R'y; 
return same route. 
No. 12. Halifax and Return. $17 5° 

Boston to .St. John by International S. S. Co. ; St. John to Halifax by Intercolonial R'y; 
Halifax to Annapolis by Windsor & Annapolis R'y; Annapolis to St. John by Bay of 
Fundy S. S. Co. ; St. John to Boston by International S. S. Co.; or vice versa. 
No. 13. Halifax and Return. $16.50 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to Halifax by Intercolonial R'y; 
Halifax to Boston by Canada Atlantic S. S. Line. 
No. 14. Kentville and Return. $13.00 

Boston to St. John by International S. -S. Co. ; St. John to Annapolis by Bay of Fundy S. 
S. Co.; Annapolis to Kentville by Windsor & Annapolis R'y; return same route. 
No. 15. Montreal and Return. $26.50 

Boston to St. John by International S. S, Co. ; St. John to Montreal by Intercolonial R'y; 
Montreal to Boston by Canadian Pacific R'y, via Newport. 

No. 16. Montreal and Return. $26.50 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to Montreal by Canadian Pacific 
Short Line; Montreal to Boston by Canadian Pacific R'y via Newport. 
No. 17. Mulgrave and Return. $i7-75 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co. ; St. John to Mulgrave by Intercolonial R'y; 
return same route. 
No. 18. New Castle, N. B., and Return. $14.40 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co. ; St. John to New Castle by Intercolonial 
R'y; return same route. 

94 



MISCELLANEOUS TOURS. — Continued. 

No. ig. Pictou, N. S., and Return. $15-50 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to Truro by Intercolonial R'y; 
return same route. 
No. 20. Portland, Me., and Return. $2 00 

Boston to Portland by International S. S. Co. ; Portland to Boston by International S. S. Co. 
No. 21. Portland, Me., and Return. $400 

Boston to Portland by International S. S Co.; Portland to Boston by Boston & Maine 
R.R.; if limited ticket, $3.50. 
No. 22. Sydney, C. B., and Return. $22.75 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to Mulgrave by Intercolonial R'y; 
Mulgrave to Sydney by Bras d'Or Lake S. S. ; return same route. 
No. 23. Sydney, C. B., and Return. $18.75 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to Sydney by Intercolonial R'y: 
return same route. 
No. 24. St. John and Return. $12.50 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co. ; St. John to Boston, all rail. 
Mo. 25. Summerside, P. E. I., and Return. $14.00 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co. ; St. John to Pt. Du Chene by Intercolonial 
R'y; Pt. Du Chene to Summerside by Charlottetown Steam Nav. Co.; return same 
route. 
No. 26. Truro, N. S., and Return. $15-50 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to Truro by Intercolonial R'y; 
return same route 
No. 27. Three Provinces Excursion. $22.10 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co. ; St. John to Annapolis by Bay of Fundy S. 
S. Co.; Annapolis to Halifa.x by Windsor & Annapolis R'y: Halifax to Pictou by 
Intercolonial R'y; Pictou to Charlottetown by Charlottetown Steam Nav. Co.; 
Charlottetown to Summerside by P. E. I. R'y; Summerside to Pt. Du Chene by 
Charlottetown Steam Nav. Co.; Pt. Du Chene to St. John by Intercolonial R'y; 
St. John to Boston by International S. S. Co. This tour may be reversed, if desired, at 
same rate. 
No. 28. 'Windsor and Return. $14.00 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to Annapolis by Bay of Fundy S. 
S. Co.; Annapolis to Windsor by W'indsor & Annapolis R'y; return same route. 
No. 29. 'Yarmouth, N. S., and Return. $12.75 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to Digby by Bay of Fundy S. S. 
Co. ; Digby to Yarmouth by Western Counties R'y; return same route. 
No. 30. Yarmouth, N. S., and Return. $10.50 

Boston to St. John by International S. S. Co.; St. John to Digby by Bay of Fundy S. S. 
Co.; Digby to Yarmouth by Western Counties R'y; Yarmouth to Boston by Yarmouth 
S. S. Co. 



GENERAL INFORilATION TO PASSENGERS. 

RETURN TICKET.S are on sale to all principal points, and a large saving is made 
by purchasing the same. All return tickets entitle the passenger to stop-over 
privileges. 

STATEROOM.S AND MEAL.S. — Rooms maybe engaged in advance upon appli- 
cation by letter or telegram to the local agents of the company. Stateroom 
berths are not sold by this company. Rooms are $r.oo, $1.50 and $2. 00 each. 
There are also several bridal and family rooms on each steamer, varying in 
price from $3.00 to $4.00. Meals are served on the American plan, at the 
following prices: Breakfast or supper, 50 cents; dinner, 75 cents. 

CHILDREN'S TICKETS. —Children between the ages of five and twelve, half- 
fare ; under five, free. 

REDEMPTION OF TICKETS. — In the purchase of tickets, passengers are 
reminded that any portion of a ticket not used will be redeemed at its value at 
the Boston Wharf Agency, either by mail or upon personal application. This 
will apply to tickets issued by this company over its connections as well as 
over its own lines. 

.STEAMERS' LANDINGS. — From Boston, the steamers of the St. John line 
leave the south side of Commercial Wharf. At Portland, the steamers leave 
Railroad Wharf, foot of State Street. At Eastport, the steamers of the 
International S. S. Co., the Campobello steamer, the St. Croix River steamer 
for St. Andrews, Robbinston and Calais, and steamer M. & M. for Pembroke, 
land at same pier. At St. John, the company's pier is at Reed's Point. 

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SIXTEEN years before the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, the 
French found their way to Lubec and were the first settlers. 

In 1758 French Acadians, escaping from Nova Scotia, settled along 
this coast. 

Here is located the most eastern lighthouse on the United States 
coast, established in 1809. 

During the past few years Lubec has made rapid strides as a favorite 
stopping-off place for tourists. There are several well-equipped hotels. 
The International Steamship Company are building a substantial wharf 
for the accommodation of the growing passenger and freight business. 

NORTH LUBEC. 

It is doubtful if any portion of the coast of Maine has grown so 
rapidly into popular favor as this charming neck of land. 

It is the most eastern part of Uncle Sam's broad domain. The 
scenery is charming ; the climate unsurpassed. As high an authority 
as General Greeley says, " It contains all the conditions essential to 
comfort and health during the heated term." 

Men interested in the Young Men's Christian Associations in New 
England, in casting about for a choice location for a summer resort for 
their members and families, had their attention called to this place. 
They found that " the half had not been told" them. 

Since the summer of 1889 encampments under moral and Christian 
influence have been held, under the control of representatives of the 
Young Men's Christian Associations of New England. 

The variety of scenery, the romantic islands, the unexcelled oppor- 
tunities for boating and fishing, together with the moral surroundings of 
this already popular neck of land, have placed it in the front ranks of 
seaside summer resorts. 

The North Lubec Improvement Company own between six hundred 
and seven hundred acres of land, and their latest acquisition is one of 
the best springs in Maine. James F. Babcock, a chemical expert of 
Boston, has analyzed the water and pronounced it " exceedingly pure, 
as regards the presence of organic matter, and in its general character 
and composition resembles the Poland and other water of that class." 

A spacious hotel, " The Ne-mat-ta-no," has been erected. x\ll its 
appointments are first-class, and yet the rates are much lower than those 
charged at other seaside hotels. Families and young men who do not 
care for hotel life and desire to economize, can be accommodated at 
the neat farmhouses at about $5.00 per week. All who attend the 
encampment, whether located at the hotel or not, are considered a 
" member of the family." A casino for public meetings and entertain- 
ments, a gymnasium, a bowling alley, tennis courts and croquet grounds 
are among the pleasing features of the encampment. Next season there 
will be the best attractions of any previous season. Evangelist Geo. S. 
Avery will conduct evangelistic meetings and give a series of Bible 
readings during the month of July. Evangelist W. S. Martin, Chalk- 
talker N. S. Greet, and others, will assist during August, and the 
excursions, fishing parties, and musical and literary entertainments will 
be all that can be desired. 



COHNECTIHG IiIflES EAST OF BOSTOfl. 



SPECIAL NOTICE. 



The time-tables given Ijelow are substantially correct at the time this book goes 
to press. Changes, however, occur when the Summer Arrangements of the lines 
take effect, and passengers are respectfully referred to the official publicati.ons of 
the several lines, also to the Pathfinder Railway Guide, published at Boston, 
monthly, and to the Travelers' Official Railway Guide, published monthly at New 
York, which contain time-tables of all lines in the United States and Canada. 

BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD, — Trains leaving Boston at 12.30 P.M. 
(Eastern Division) and i P. M. (Western Division) connecc with the steamers of the 
International Steamship Co. at Portland. Trains for Boston leave Portland 
'Western Division) at 6.30 and S.40 A. jM., 12.40 and 3.30 P. M., and (on the liastern 

Division) at 2.10 and S.45 A. M., i.oo and 6.00 P. M. 

WESTERN DIVISION LOCAL TRAINS, FROM PORTLAND 

For Old Orchard Beach, Saco, Biddeford, and intermediate stations, 6.30, 8.40 and 
10.25 ^^- ^I-' 3-3° ''^'''d 6-15 P.M. F'or Kennebunk, 6.30, 8.40 A. M., 12.45, 3-3° '^"'^ 
6.15 P. M. For Wells Beach, 6.30, 8.40 A. M., and 3.30 P. M. For North Berwick, 
Great Falls and Dover, 6.30, 840 A. M., 12.45 ^"'^^ 3-3° I'- ^^' F°*' Exeter, Haver- 
hill, Lawrence and Lowell, 6.30, 8.40 A. M., and 3.30 P. M. For Rochester, Farm- 
ington, Alton Bay and Wolfboro', 8.40 A.M., 12.45 ^^^ 3-30 P- M. For Manchester 
and Concord (via Lawrence), 8.40 A. M. For Manchester and Concord (via New- 
market Junction), 6.30 A. M. and 3.30 P. M. 

EASTERN DIVISION TRAINS 

Leave Portland at 2.10 A. M. for Boston (night Pullman), stopping at Biddeford, 
Kittery, Portsmouth, Newburyport, Ipswich, Salem, Lynn, Chelsea and Somerville. 

Leave Portland for Boston and important way stations at 9.00 A. M. 

Leave Portland i.oo P.M. for Boston, stopping at way-stations to Portsmouth. 

Leave Portland 325 P. M. for Cape Elizabeth. 

Leave Portland at 6 P. M. (express for Boston), stopping only at principal points. 

BOOTHBAY, MOUSE AND SQUIRREL ISLANDS. — (Twenty-five miles.) 
Eastern Steamboat Co. Steamers leave Bath, Me., daily (except Sunday), after 
arrival of noon trains of Maine Central Railroad from Portland. 



CONNECTING LINES EAST OF BOSTON. — Continued. 

BAY OF FUNDY STEAMSHIP CO. — (Si.xty miles.) (St. John, Digby, and 
Annapolis, Nova Scotia Line.) Steamers, during July and August, leave St. 
John every day (except Sunday) at 7.30 A. M., local St. John time, for Digby and 
Annapolis, N. S., connecting at these points for all parts of Western Nova Scotia. 
Returning, leave Annapolis and Digby same afternoon, arriving at St. John about 
7.00 P. M. For other time tables, see Company's circulars and daily papers. 

BAY DE CHALEUR, N. B. — Steamer "Admiral" leaves Dalhousie (north 
shore of N. B.) every Wednesday and Saturday morning for Gaspe, N. B., calling 
at intermediate ports. Returning, leaves Gaspe Monday and Thursday mornings. 

CAMPOBELLO STEAMBOAT CO. — (One and one half miles.) Steamers 
Gf the various Ferry companies for the Island of Campobello leave Eastport at 
frequent intervals during the day. 

CAPE BRETON STEAMER LINE. — (Eighty miles.) (Bras d'Or Lake 
Steam Navigation Co.) After commencement of the summer time-table of the 
Intercolonial Railway, steamers leave Mulgrave every Tuesday, Thursday, and 
Saturday, on arrival of express train from St. John, for Sydney, passing through 
Lennox Passage and St. Peter's Canal, for Grand Narrows, Baddeck and Bouiar- 
derie Islands in Bras d'Or Lakes. Returning, leave Sydney (calling at above 
places) Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, for Mulgrave, connecting with express 
for St. John and all points west. 

FRONTIER STEAMBOAT CO. — (Thirty miles.) (Eastport, St. Andrews, 
Robbinston, Calais— opp. St. Stephen) Steamer "Rose Standish" runs in 
regular connection with the steamers of the International Steamship Co. to and 
from Eastport, performing a daily service on the St. Croix River. 

GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY. — For Auburn and Lewiston, 7.20, 9.00 A. M., 
12.45 ^"tl 5.12 P. M. For Gorham, N. H , 9.00 A. M., 1.30 and 5.12 P. M. For 
Montreal and Chicago, 9.00 A. M. and 1.30 P. M. For Quebec, 1.30 P. M. For 
Buckfield and Canton, 9.00 A. M. and 1.30 P. "SI. 

SHORE LINE RAILWAY. — (Between St. John, St. George and St. 
Stephen, N. B.) Trains leave Carleton (ferry from St. John) daily (Sundays 
excepted) at 7.45 A. M. 

GLEN HOUSE STAGE LINE. — Stages leave Glen Station, Maine Central 
Railroad (White Mountains Division), on arrival of train from Portland, 11.00 
A. M., train from Boston, 2.00 P. M.; also leave Gorham, N. II., (Grand Trurk 
Railway) on arrival of train leaving Portland at 9.00 A. M. and 1.30 P. M. ; leave 
the summit of Mount Washington for Glen House at 7.00 A. M. and 2.00 P. M. 

INTERCOLONIAL RAILWAY. — Trains of this road leave St. John morning 
and evening for Moncton, Campbellton, Amherst, Truro, Halifax, and all important 
stations on main line both north and south of Moncton. For hours of leaving, see 
official time-cards. 

LUBEC AND EASTPORT FERRY. — (Three miles.) Ferry steamers leave 
Eastport for Lubcc at frequent intervals day and evening. 

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CONNECTING LINES EAST OF BOSTON.— Continued. 

LUBEC AND MACHIAS STAGE. — (Twenty-eight miles.) Leaves Lubec 
daily for Machias. Returning, leaves Machias daily for Lubec. 

MAINE CENTRAL RAILWAY.— Trains leave Portland as follows on 
and after June 27th, 1892 : 

For Auburn and Levviston, S.30 A. M., 1.15 and 5.10 P. M. Lewiston, via Bruns- 
wick, 6.40 A. M., i.oo, 1.20, 5.05 and I11.30 P. M. For Bath, 6.40 A. M., i.oo, 1.20, 
5.05 and J 1 1.30 P. M. Rockland and Kno.x & Lincoln Railroad, 6.40 A. M. and i .20 
and tii.30 P. M. Brunswick, Gardiner, Hallowell and Augusta, 6.40 A. M., i.oo, 
1.20, 5.05 and J11.20 P. M. Farmington, via Lewiston, 8.30 A. M. and 1.15 P. M.; 
via Brunswick, 1.20 P. M. Monmouth, Winthrop, Lake Maranacook, Readfield, 
Oakland and North Anson, 1.15 P. M. Waterville and Skowhegan, via Lewiston, 
1.15 P. M., and Waterville only at 5.10 P. M.; via Augusta, 6.40 A. M., 1.00, 1.20 
and J 1 1.30 P. M. Belfast and Dexter, 1.15, 1.20, J 11.30 P. M. Bangor, via Lewis- 
ton, 1. 15 P. M.; via Augusta, 6.40 A. M., i.oo, 1.20, J11.30 P.M. Bangor and 
Piscataquis Railroad, via Dexter, 6.40 A. M. and i.oo P .M.; via Oldtown,6.40 A. M. 
}ii.30 P. M. Ellsworth and Bar Harbor, i.oo, 1.20, }ii.30 P. M. Vanceboro', 
St. Stephen (Calais), Aroostook County, St. John, Halifax, and the Provinces, 1.15, 
1.20, 1 11-30 P. M. 

I Night express, with sleeping-car attached, runs every night, Sundays included, 
through to Lewiston (via Brunswick), Bath, Rockland, and Bangor, but not to 
Skowhegan Monday mornings, or to Belfast and Dexter, or beyond Bangor, except- 
ing to Bar Harbor, Sunday mornings. 

WHITE MOUNTAINS LINE. — For Cumberland Mills, S.45 A. M., i.os, 
6.15 P. M. For Sebago Lake, 8.45 A. M., 1.05 and 6.15 P. M. For Bridgton, 8.45 
A. M., 1.05 and 6.15 P. M. Fryeburg, North Conway, Glen Station, Crawford's, 
and Fabyan's and Montreal, 8.45 A. M. and 6.15 P. M. Jefferson and Lancaster, 
8.45 A. M. and 1.05 P. M. Colebrook and Quebec, 1.05 P. M. 

NOVA SCOTIA CENTRAL RAILWAY. —Trains of this railway connect at 
Middleton (W. & A. R'y) for New Germany, Lunenburg, Bridgewater, Malone Bay, 
and other points on South Shore, including Liverpool. 

CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY.— (St. John to Fredericton, Grand 
Falls, Vanceboro', St. Stephen, St. Andrews, etc.) Trains leave St. John for 
Fredericton, St. Stephen, St. Andrews, Houlton, Bangor, etc., at 6.10 and 8.55 A. M. 
For Fredericton at 4.45 P. M. For St. Stephen, St. Andrews, Houlton, Bangor, 
etc., at 8.30 P. M. 

PORTLAND AND NEW YORK LINE. — (Three hundred and forty miles.) 
(Maine Steamship Co.) Steamers leave Portland for New York, calling at 
Martha's Vineyard, every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 6 P. M. Returning, 
leave New York every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 5 P. M. 

PORTLAND AND BOOTHBAY LINE.— Steamer leaves Portland Tuesdays 
and Saturdays at 8.00 A. M., for Squirrel Island, Boothbay, Heron Island, South 
Bristol, and East Boothbay, and for Pemaquid every Thursday at 8.00 A. M. 
Returning, leaves Boothbay every Monday and Thursday at 8.00 A. M. for Portland 
and intermediate points. Also leaves Pemaquid for Portland Fridays at 7.00 A. M. 

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CONNECTING LINES EAST OF BOSTON. — Continued. 

MX. DESERT AND MACHIAS LINE. -After June 27th a new steamer, the 

"Frank Jones," will make tri-weekly round trips between Rockland, Bar Harbor 
and Machiasport, leaving Rockland Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 6.00 
A.M., and returning from i\Iachias]:)ort, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. 

PORTLAND Ss ROCHESTER RAILROAD. — Trains leave Portland as 
fellows: — For Worcester, Clinton, Ayer Junction, Nashua, Windham and Epping 
at 7.30 A. M. and 12.30 P.M. For Manchester, Concord, and points north at 7.30 
A.M. and 12.30 P.M. For Rochester, Springvale, Alfred, Waterboro' and Saco 
River at 7.30 A. M., 12.30 and 5.30 P.M. For Gorham at 7.30 and 10.00 A.M., 
12.30, 3.00, 5.30, 6.20 and II. 15 P.M. For Westbrook (Saccarappa), Cumberland 
Mills, Westbrook Junction and Woodford's at 7.30 and 10.00 A.M., 12.30, 3.00, 
5.30, 6.20 and I I.I 5 P. M. 

PORTLAND AND BOSTON STEAMERS. — (One hundred and te: miles ) 
(Portland Steam Packet Co.) Leave Portland at 7.00 P.M. daily. Returning, 
leave Boston at 7.00 P.M. daily. In summer, special Sunday-evening trips are 
made in both directions. 

PEMBROKE AND EASTPORT LINE. -Steamer M. & M. runs regularly 
between Pembroke and Eastport, making close connections at the latter place with 
International Steamers. 

CHARLOTTETOWN STEAM NAVIGATION CO. -Steamer leaves Point 
du Chene about 2.00 P.M. daily, e.xcept Sundays, for Summerside. Returning, 
leaves Summerside about 8.00 A.M. Leaves Pictou, Monday, Wednesday, Friday 
and Saturday, about i.oo P.M. for Charlottetown. Returning, leaves Charlottetown, 
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday about 7.00 A.M. 

STAR LINE STEAMER leaves Indiantown at 9.00 A.M. week-days. Return- 
ing, leaves Fredericton S.co A.M. week-days. 

WINDSOR & ANNAPOLIS RAILWAY.- Trains leave Annapolis as follows: — 
6.10 A.M. and 1.40 P.M. daily (e.xcept Sunday), for all points between Annapolis 
and Halifa.x. 

YARMOUTH & ANNAPOLIS RAILWAY. - (Between Digby and Yar- 
mouth, N.S.) Leave Yarmouth, e.xpress daily at 8.00 A.M., arrive at Annapolis 
at 12.00 noon ; Passenger and Freight Monday, Wednesday and Friday at i.oo P.M., 
arrive at Annapolis 5.48 P.M. Leave Annapolis, express daily at 1.20 P.M., arrive 
at Yarmouth 5.20 P.M. ; Passenger and Freight Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 
at 7.30 A.M., arrive at Yarmouth 12.35 P-^f- 



CONNECTING LINES TO PORTLAND 

AND SOUTH AND WEST FROM BOSTON. 



THROUGH TRAINS -SUBJECT TO CHANGE. 



j Morning trains and the 
12 30 and 1. 00 P. M. trains 
I. connect at Portland with 
1 steamers. 

JSSf No transfer. 



Boston & Maine Railroad — Eastern Division. 

For PORTLAND — 7.^,0 and 9,15 A. M., 12.30 and 7.00 P. M. 
" WHITE MOUNTAINS — 7.30 A. M., 12.30 P. .VI. 

Boston & Maine Railroad — Western Division. 

For PORTLAND — 7.30 and S.30 A. M., i.oo and 3.45 P. M. 

Boston & Maine Railroad — Lmvell Division. 

For MONTREAL, P. Q.— via Central Vermont Railroad — 8.30 A. M., i.oo and 7.30 P. M. 
" " " — via Canadian Pacific Railway — g.oo A. M., 8.00 P. M. 

" WHITE MOUNTAINS — 9.00 A. M. 

Boston & Maine Railroad — Central Mass. Division. 

For HUDSON, WARE and NORTHAMPTON — 7.45 A. M., 1.30 P. M. 

Boston & Albany Railroad. 

For NEW YORK. — 5 00, 9.00 and 11.00 A. M., 4.00 and 11.00 P. M. 
" ALBANY — 5.00, 8.30 and Ti.oo A. M., 3.00, 7.00 and 10.30 P M. 
" THE WEST— 8.30 A. M., 3.00 and 7.00 P. M. 

Fitchburg Railroad — Hoosac Tunnel Route. 

For MONTREAL, P. Q.— via Central Vermont Railroad — 8 00 and 11.30 A. M. 
" TROY, N. Y.— 6.30, 8.30 and ti.30 A. M., 3.00, 7.00 and 11.00 P.M. 
" THE WEST — 8.30 and 11.30 A. M., 3.00 and 7.00 P. M. 

New York & New England Railroad. 

For NEW YORK — S.30 A M , 12.00 noon, 3.00 and 3.30 P. M. 
" PHILADELPHIA, BALTIMORE and WASHINGTON - 6.00 P. M. 
" NEW YORK — via Sound Steamer — 6.00 P. M. 

Old Colony Railroad. 

For NEW YORK — via Fall River Line — 6.00 P. M. 

" — via Shore Line; all rail — 11.00 A. M., i.oo, 5.00 and 11.30 P. M. 
" " —via Providence Line — Opens in Jime, 6.30 P. M. 

" " " — via Stonington Line — 6.30 P. .M. 



BOSTON AND PORTLAND BY DAYLIGHT. 



RATES. 



Boston to Portland. Me 

" Auburn, Me 

" Augusta, Me 

Bath, Me 

Belfast, Me 

■' Brunswick, Me 

" Crawford House, N. H 

" Fabyan's, N. H 

' Farmington, Me 

Glen House, N. H... (via P. & O. 

Gorham, N. H 

'■ Gardiner, Me 

" Hallowell, Me 

" Lewiston, Me 

Montreal, P. Q (via P. & O R. R. 

Montreal, PQ... (via G. T. R'y.) 

" North Conway, N. H 

Old Orchard, N. H 

■' Poland Springs, Me 

Skowhegan, I\Ie 

Waterville, Me 



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$2.00 




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3.00 












2.25 










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2 00 






4.30 


6. 85 




4 55 


7.10 




3-75 


7-5° 




6. CD 


10.00 




4-45 


7.00 




2.75 
2.90 












2.00 
8.50 






14.50 




8 50 


14.50 




3 03 


5.60 




1-35 


2.50 




2-75 


5.00 




4.50 
3-75 









STAGE CONNECTIONS. 



At Shubenacadie with Stages daily for Maitland, Gay's River and j\Iusquodol)it, 
and on Saturdays for Kennetcook and Noel. 

At Hopewell with McDaniel's Stage Line for Springville, Kridgevillej St. Paul, 
Up]3er and Lower Caledonia, Smithfiekl and Melrose. 

At Truro, daily, with Stages for Clifton, Black Rock and Maitland, and tri- 
weekly for Earltown, and W. Branch River John. 

At Londonderry with Stages for Acadia Iron Mines, Great Village, Economy 
and Five Islands. 

At Shediac with Stages to and from Cocagne and Buctouche. 

At Harcourt with Stages for Richibucto, Kingston and other places on North 
Shore. 

At Newcastle with tri-weekly Stage for Red r.ank, Whitneyville, Derby, Bliss- 
field, Doaktown and Fredericton. 

At Campbellton (during the winter) with Stage Line daily for Gaspe and 
Intermediate places on Baie de Clialeur. 

At Riviere DU Loup with Turner's Mail Line for Madawaska, N. B 



CAPE BRETON CONNECTIONS, 1893. 

Intercolonial trains run through from Mulgrave to Grand Narrows and Sydney. 

Steamship Marion will leave Sydney on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 
calling at Bouloidarie, Baddeck, Grand Narrows, St. Peters and Grandique Ferry, 
connecting with No. 20 Train. Returning, leave Mulgrave on arrival of No. 19 
Train, for Sydney, calling at above points and connecting with Steamship Magnolia 
at Baddeck for Whycocomaugh, Little Narrows and Little Bras d'Or. 

Steamship Neptune will leave Mulgrave on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 
on arrival of No. 19 Train, for East Bay, calling at Grandique Ferry and St. Peters. 
Returning from East Bay on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in time to connect 
with No. 20 Train. 

Steamship Ramouski will leave Mulgrave every Monday and Friday, on arrival 
of No. 19 Train, for Arichat and Canso; Tuesdays and Thursdays for Port Hood; 
Wednesdays and Saturdays for Guysboro. Returning from above points following 
mornings, so as to connect with No. 20 Train. 



lilST OF HOTELiS. 

^^^^ This Company not responsible for errors or omissions. 



City oti Town. Na.mii of Hotel. 



Amherst, N. S.. 
Annapolis, N. S. 



Aylesford, N. S. 



Berwick, N. S 

Bridgetown, N. S. 



Cala 



Campobello, N. B. 

Cutler, Me 

Dalhousie, N. B... 

Digby, N. S 



Terrace Hotel 

Amherst Hotel 

Clifton House 

American House... 
Commercial House. 
Aylesford House... 



Proprietor. 




N. C. Calhoun 40 

Geo. McFarlane ! 75 



$1 



Eastport, Me . . . . 
Fredericton, N. B. 



Halifax, N. S... 
Kentville, N. S. 



Kingston, N. S 

Lawrencet'n, N. S.. 

Middleton, N. S . . 
JMoncton, N. B 



New Glasgow, N. .S. 
Pt. Hastiiigs, C. B. . 
Portland, Me 



St, Andrews, N. B. 
St. John, N. B 



Summerside, P. E. I . 
Truro, N. S 



Waterville, N. S. 

Weymouth, N. S. 
Windsor, N. S. . . 



French Villa.. ..... 

Grand Central 

Revere House 

Border City Hotel. . . 
St. Croi.x Exchange.. 

.-American House 

Ty'n-y-Coed 

Ho»el Culler 

Inch Arran House. . . 

M urphy's Hotel 

.Myrtle House 

Royal Hotel 

Short's Hotel 

i jurnham House 

Digby Hotel 

Quoddy House 

Barker House 

Queen Hotel 

Queen Hotel 

Halifa.x Hotel 

Lyons' Hotel 

Kentville House 

Porter House 

Revere Hou.se 

.American House 

Victoria Hotel 

Kingston House 

Elm House 

Valley House 

."American House.... 
Brunswick House . . 
Commercial House.. 

Vendome 

Caledonia Hotel 

Falmouth Hotel 

United States 

Preble House 

City Hotel 

St. Julian Hotel 

Mgonquin 

Dufferin 

Victoria 

Royal 

New Victoria 

Belmont 

Queen 

Clifton House 

Hotel Russ 

Pr. of Wales Hotel.. 

Victoria Hotel 

Bigelow House 

Learment Hotel . — 



Wolfville, N. S. 



Avon House 

Victoria Hotel. . . 
Clifton House. . . . 
Somerset House. . 
Windsor House.. 
Acadia House.. . . 
Central Hotel. . . . 
Wolfville House.. 

Kent Lodge 

.American House. 
Village Hotel... 



Wm. McLelland 
Mrs. J. H. McLeod. 
Mrs. J. H. Salter... 

M. N. Graves 

Mrs. Corbin 

Mrs. Vaughan 

W. I. Glencross.. . . 

Mrs. P.ussell 

D. M. Gardner 

J. K. Duran 

J. G. Hamilton .... 

Write Manager. 

Write Eben Dean, 70 Devonshire Street, Boston. 



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5.0010 7.00 
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J. C. Morrison 

J. Daley 

Mrs. M. Short 

\1 rs J. Burnham 

Miss Smith 

Kenney & Bucknam.. 

F. B. Coleman 

J. A. Edwards 

A. B. Sheraton 

H. Hesslein 

D. McLeod 

Jas. Lyons 

Rufus Porter 

Mrs. W. Redden 

J. Mcintosh j 16 

C. E. Farren 

R. E. Davidson .... 

A. P. Phinney , 

N. H. Phinney 

D. Feindal 

Geo. McSweeney... 



D. McDearmid. 



J. K. Martin 

Foss & O'Connor. . . 

M. S. Gibson 

V. H. Sweet 

W. R. Underwood 50 

Albert Miller 200 

F. A. Jones 50 

p. W. McCormick., 

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J. L. McCloskey 50 

John Sime 33 

J. C. Rickie 29 

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J. B. Russ 25 

Mrs. A. L. ]\IcKenzie.. 45 

N. A. Ross 22 

E. C. Bigelow 30 

A. H. Learment 20 

W. H. Risteen 11 

T. A. I\Largeson 1 8 

Forbes Jones j 14 

John Cox 

Thos. Doran — 

F. Kelcup ... 

W. Gibson 

Thos. Gibson 

J. L. Franklyn 

Mrs. C. R. Quin... 

H. D. Farrell 14 

.Mrs. Haliburton j 12 

J. W. Harris 24 

Mrs. Newcombe | 14 

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Lyman, Son & Co., Portland, Me. 

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G. M. Josselyn & Co., 38 and 40 Market St., San 
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Shoemaker & Voute, 124 South Delaware Ave., 
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Johnson Bros., Bath, Me. 

Nealley & Co., Bangor, Me. 

I. L Snow & Co., Rockland, Me. 

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Making Connection witin all Railroad and Steamship Lines out of Boston. 

Through Rates and Bills of Lading Given to all points West and South. 

Steamers Leave Boston and l:iloucester Daily During the Year, Sunday Excepted. 

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MAINE STEAMSHIP COMPANY. 

TRI-WEEKLY LINE BETWEEN 

Ipoptiand and f^euu Vot^^k. 



SUMMER SERV/CE, 1893. 

STEAMSHIPS 

rianhattan new; 2,000 Tons 
Cottage City ^^ew) 2,000 Tons 

Eleanora . . . 1,200 Tons 

Leave Franklin Wharf, Portland, every Monday, Wednesday 
and Saturday at 6.00 P. M. 

Leave Pier 38, East River, New York every Monday, Wednes- 
day and Saturday, at 5 00 P. M. 

FARES (IN STATEROOMS). 

Between Portland and New York ... $.; oo 

Round Trip Tickets .'.'.'.'"' 800 

Between Portland or New York, and Martha's Vineyard ....'. 4 00 

Round Trip Tickets from Portland or New York to Martha's Vineyard and Return, 7.00 

IVI EA LS EXTRA. 

Freight received and forwarded to and from all points South and West of 
New York and East of Portland. 
For Freight or Passage apply to 

J. F. LISCOMB, General Agent, HORATIO HALL, Agent, 

office: franklin wharf, tortland. office: pier 38 east river, new york. 

J. B. COYLE, Manager, Portland, Me. 



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Portland ^team Packet (]o. 

LINE OF FIRST-CLASS STEAMERS 



BETWEEN 



Boston and Portland. 



One of the steamers — Portland, Tremont, Forest City — will leave 
India Wharf, Boston, for Portland every evening at 7.00 p.m. (except 
Sundays), connecting, on arrival, with Maine Central, Knox & Lincoln, 
Grand Trunk, and Portland & Rochester Railroads, and with steamers 
for points on Coast of Maine. Direct and desirable route to Lewiston, 
Auburn, Bangor, and all points East and North. Through tickets at low 
rates. Leave Portland for Boston every evening at 7.00 o'clock (except 
Sundays), connecting, on arrival, with the earliest trains on all diverging 
lines. 

[[^^ The new Steamer Portland, recently added to this line, is the 
largest and finest steamer in the East. 

Sunday trips from middle of June to middle of September, leaving 
each port at 7.00 p.m. 

This line affords a most desirable route to the Rangeley Lakes, 
through by daylight from Portland. The standard route for comfort and 
pleasure to Lewiston, Poland Springs, Mount Desert, Bethel, Gorham, 
N.H., North Conway, Crawford's, Fabyan's, etc. Close connections at 
Portland with all diverging lines, and through tickets to points North 
and East. 

J. B. COYLE, Manager. J. F. LISCOMB, Gen. Agent and Treas. 

C. F. WILLIAMS, Agent, India Wharf, Boston. 



General Offices : PORTLAND, ME. 



114 

CORNER OF MIDDLE AND PLUM STREETS, 
r^ortleiarxcl, =, = = = = = = :iVIciii-i^, 

The best arranged Hotel in the city, and next block to the Post Office and United States Court 
Room, and Masonic Hall. 

' .. Rooms lighted by electricity, and heated with steam. X nice billiard hall, hair-dressing room and 
bath rooms connected; in fact, every comfort that can be found at any first-class Hotel can be found at 
the SI'. JULIAN. 
..'.Horse Cars pass the door for all stations, steamboat landings, and all points of interest. 

We are prepared to serve Banquets at Short Notice. 



.Single Lodgings, 50 cents, 75 cents, and $1.00. Rooms, $1.00 per day and upwards. 

Meals, see Bill of Fare. 
MEAL HOURS — Breakfast, 6 to 9 30. Dinner, 12 to 2.30. Supper, 6 to 8. 

SUNDAY — Pireakfast, 8 to 10. Dinner, i to 2.30. Supper, 6 to 7-30. 

ISIeals sent to rooms will be charged extra. 

R. W. UNDERWOOD, Proprietor. 



CA8CO BA Y STE AMBOAT CO. 

Hegular Daily ]VIail Line betuieen Portland, ]VIe.,& the Islands of Caseo Bay. 

The only line running to the Islands all the year round. This company affords 
unrivalled facilities for transportation to Peaks, Little and Great Diamond, Gushing 
and Long Islands by their new and handsome fleet of steamers, consisting of the 

FOREST CITY, FOREST QUEEN, EMITA and CADET. 

During the summer months a regular ferry is established, leaving the city nearly 
every half hour, Sundays included. On and after July i, 1893, the first boat will 
leave Portland at 5.30 a.m. ; last boat 9.45 p.m. Returning, the first boat arrives at 
Portland at 6.30 a.m., last boat 11.30 p.m., connecting with railroads diverging by 
Street cars at head of wharf. General Oftice, Custom House Wharf. 

C. W. T. GODING, General Manager. 

JAMES QUINN. THOM.\S Ij. MERRILL. 

QUINN & CO., 
BOILER MAKERS, BLACKSMITHS S MACHINISTS 

Special attention given to Repairs. 

Engineers' Supplies. 

Plate Iron cut to dimensions for any purpose. 

Correspondence Solicited regarding all kinds of Iron Work. 

OFFICE : 49 COMMERCIAL STREET, COR. FRANKLIN, 
PORTLAND, ME. 

The Only Boston Paper that gives all Provincial News, and the only paper that 

discusses intelligently Provincial topics of interest, is the 

British flmeriean Citizen. 

Unique, Fearless, Independent, Frank. 



Published Weekly at $2 00 per "S'ear. For sale by all Newsdealers at 5 cents. 



R. J. LONG, Editor. 7 Bromfield Street, Bostor- 



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FRONTIER STEAMBOAT CO. 

1893. SUMMER ARRANGEMENT. 1893. 

SiMMM "ROSE STANDISH" 

Leaves Calais every morning (Sundays excepted) touching at Robbinstcn and St. Andrews. Connect- 
ing at Eastport with the " International Steamers " for 

St. John, Portland, and Boston. 

Ferry at Eastport for Lubec and Campobello. 

Stage at Lubec for Machias. 

Stage at Eastport for Pembroke. 

Returning, leave Eastport about noon, or on arrival of International Steamer, touching at St. 
Andrews and Robbinston. Connecting at Calais with 

St. Croix and Penobscot R'y for Princeton and Grand Lake Streams. 

Canadian Pacific R'y for Hamilton and Woodstock. 

Shore Line R'y for St. George. 

For further information see weekly time cards, or apply to the following local agents: 

JOHN PEN OLE BURG, Agent, A. H. LEAVITT, Agent. 

St. Andrews, N. B. Eastport, Me. 

JAS. L. THOMPSON, Manager, 

Calais, Maine. ^ 

«• Clarlottfitowi Sieaii Naviption Co. » 



LIMITED. 



PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 

VIA 



POINT du CHENE AND PICTOU. 



Summer Arrangement, 1893. 

The fine twin screw steamer " Northumberland," of this company, will leave Summerside ai 
8.00 a. in. daily, Sundays excepted, for Point du Chene. Returning, will leave Point du Chene 
on arrival of morning train from St. John. 

The steamer "St. Lawrence" will leave Charlottetown at 6 a.m. daily, Sundays excepted, 
for Pictou. Returning, leave Pictou daily on arrival of morning train from Halifax. 

Passengers for St. John and intermediate points leave Charlottetown at 7.00 .m. by rail, 
connecting with steamer at Summerside for Point du Chene, arriving at St. John same evening. 

FRED W. HALES, Manager, Charlottetown. 



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STAR ItlUE STEflfllEHS. 

RIVER SAINT JOHN 

THE RHINE OF AMERICA. 



SAIIT JOHK AH FREDERICTl 



FARE ONE DOLLAR. 



Until further notice, one of the splendid Mail Steamers of 
this Line will LEAVE INDIANTOWN for FRED- 
ERICTON (Gibson), and intermediate landings, every 
morning (Sundays excepted) at 9 o'clock (local time), 
and will LEAVE FREDERICTON for SAINT JOHN 
(Indiantown), and intermediate landings, every morning 
(Sundays excepted) at 8 A. M. (local time), due at Indian- 
town at 3 P. M. 

Steamers will be run on prompt time. Special arrange- 
ments made for Tourists and Excursion Parties. 

First-class tables provided. 

CONNECTIONS ARE MADE WITH TRAINS OF THE 
CAIVAWIAIV PACIFIC RAIL<^VAT for AVoodstock, Aroostook, Oraiirt Falls, 

Cclimtiistoii, X^tc, 
]V01lTHERiV & AVKSTEKIV RAILn^AT for Doaktowii, CliatUam, Etc., 

AND WITH 

STEAMEK "Fi:,ORE]VCEVIt.i:,E" Cwliile water is liigli) for Eel River, 
TVoodstock, Etc., and STEAMERS of the IIVTERIVATIOIVAI^ STEAM- 
SHIP CO. for and from PORTl-AlVD, BOSTOIV, and otiier Points 
in tlie United States and Canada. 



THROUGH TICKETS, SINGLE AND RETURN, ISSUED TO 
ALL STATIONS AT SPECIAL REDUCED RATES. 



Connections made with the electric cars of" St. John City Railway," which run to and from steam- 
boat landing. Fare only five cents to any point in St. John or Portland on their route. 

For further information, see folder, withrnap of river, to be obtained at offices of the Interna- 
tional Steamship Co., at railroad stations, and at hotels. 

GEO. F. BAIRD, Manager, 

Star Line Wharf, INDIANTOWN. 



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To flOVfl SCOTlfl 

VIA 

ST. joHri, ri.B. 

AND THE 

BAY OF FUNDY STEAMSHIP CO. 



(Limited.) 



THE Fine Iron Steamer "City of Monticello" runs regularly in connection with Inter- 
national Steamship Co. between St. Jolm and Dijrhy, there connecting with the 
■Western Counties Hailway for Yarniontli and points West. From Digby the steamer 
proceeds to Annapolis, si.xteen miles, through one of the most picturesque Rivers in North America, 
connecting with the Windsor & Annapolis Railway, which traverses the far-famed " Land 
of Evangeline," to Halifax and points East. 

Connection made at St. John with the "All-Rail Line" to Bangor, Portland, and Boston, with 
the Steamers of the International Steamsliip Co. to Eastport, Portland and Boston, with 
Canadian Pacific for Montreal, Intercolonial to Moncton, Quebec, etc., the Grand Southern R.R. for 
St. George and St. Stephen, Canadian Pacific to Bangor and points West, and the New York, Maine, 
and New Brunswick Steamship Co. 

-G 

BAY OF FUNDY S.S. CO. FOR YEAR 1893. 



JANUARY AND FEBRUARY. 

From St. John Wednesday and Saturday. 

Annapolis and Digby 

MARCH AND APRIL. 

From St. John Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. 

Annapolis and Digby 

1st MAY TO 26th JUNE. 

From St. John Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. 

Annapolis and Digby .... Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. 

26th JUNE TO 9th SEPTEMBER. 

From St. John Daily Trips (Sundays excepted.) 

Annapolis and Digby 

9th TO 30th SEPTEMBER. 

From St. John Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. 

Annapolis and Digby .... Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. 

OCTOBER. 

From St. John Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 

Annapolis and Digby Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. 

NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER. 

From St. John Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. 

Annapolis and Digby 



HOWARD D. TROOP, President and Manager, - ST. JOHN, N.B. 



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TY'N-Y-COED HOTEL 



This Attractive Summer Resort will be open for Visitors July ist. 




JVAI -y -OO E t> 



The Hotel, with its annex, is pleasantly situated near the water's edge, on a bluff 

seventy-five feet above the level of the sea. It is provided with all the 

comforts of a refined home, and beautifully furnished throughout. 



Access may be had by the fine steamers of the International Steamship Com- 
pany, leaving Commercial Wharf, Boston, during July and August, every Monday, 
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 5 p.m., and Portland Wednesday and Saturday 
at 5 p.m. Connection can be made with the latter steamers by taking the 12.30 
or i.oo p.m. trains on Boston & Maine Railroad, " Eastern and Western Divisions." 

For other time-tables of the company, see first pages this book. 

Baggage checked through to Campobello. 



Applications for rooms for the season of 1892 may be made to 

Care Alex. S. Porter, 

27 STATE STREET, BOSTON. 



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SEASIDE SUMMER RESORT 

NORTH LUBEC, MAINE. 
CONDUCTED ON CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES. 




JttL NE-MAT-TA-NO 

is within three minutes' walk of the wharf; one hundred feet above sea level; a water view from 
every room; abundant supply of Spring Water; excellent drainage. 

Spacious Concert Hall, first-class Bowling-Alleys, Oyiiinasiuni, Tennis Courts, 
Cafes, Sail and Ko^v Boats. 

@i HOTFI RATF^: From $9.00 to $15.00 per week. ^ 
■W nv^ I tL nniCO* $2.50 to $3.00 per day. ^ 

BOARD AT FARMHOUSES may be procured at $5.00 per week; $1.00 per day. 

YOUNG MEN who come tvell recommended tvill be allowed to erect tents on the 
premises, and no ground tent will be charged. 

The Young- Men's Christian Association Encampment 

tvill be field as usual, beginning July /, to continue until Se2>t. 1. 

EVANGELIST GEO. S. AVERY will conduct Bible Readings and Religious Services during luly. 

EVANGELIST W. S. MARTIN will hold Evangelistic Meetings during August. 

N. S. GREET, the well-known Chalk-Talker, will assist sometime during the Encampment. 

ADA :MAY COATES, the popular Elocutionist, a graduate of the Emerson .School of Oratory, will be 

present during the entire season. 
MUSICAL attractions will also be provided. 

DEEP SEA FISHING. TROUT FISHING. 

Excursions to St. Andrews Bay, Grand Manan. Mahon Falls and Quoddy Head, and Bowling and 
Tennis Tournaments, and Basket Ball and Entertainments will be among the attractions. 
For information concerning Hotel accommodations, address 

HUGH CAMPBELL, 45 Union St., BOSTON, Mass. 

For "Encampment" information, address 

K. M. ARMSTRONG, State Secretary Y. M. C. A., 

Cor. Boylston and Berkeley Sts., BOSTON, MASS. 



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T HE ALliQNQUIN . 

ST. ANDREWS, N. B. 

ON PASSAMAQUODDY BAY. 

ABSOLUTE HAY FEYEE EXEMPTION. 




A charniing-, high class summer home in the most 
delightful locality on the Atlantic Coast. Pure Water, 
Gas, Steam Heat, Open Fireplaces, Elevator, and every 
modern accessory. 

Steamer " E,ose Standish " connects with International 
Steamers at Eastport, Me., daily, reaching St. Andrews in 
one hour ; or through trains leave Boston via Boston & 
Maine Railroad daily, except Sundays. 



A. ^IIiIiEt^, manager. 

ST. ANDREWS, N. B. 



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THE TOURIST'S PARADISE ! COOL RESORTS FOR PLEASANT OUTINGS I 



WHERE_IS IT? 

It lies between St. John and St. Stephen, along THE SHORE 
LINE RAILWAY. 

In every particular it fills the bill. REST, SCENERY, NOVELTY, 
FISHING, SHOOTING, BOATING, PICNICING, CAMPING- 
OUT, EXPLORING. From such enjoyments as these the Pleasure 
Seeker may choose, and he will find facilities for all. 

It is a land of Romance, of Legend, of Beauty. It is Nature's 
Country as yet. LAKE, SEA or RIVER are all found here, and are 
all easy to reach, for THE SHORE LINE RAILWAY runs through 
the heart of this Country. 

In the LAKES and STREAMS bordering on the Railway, the 
Fisherman will find abundance of Fish. 

Gt^RHD EXCUt^SIOH. 

St. Croix River, St. Andrews, Calais, St. Stephen, St. George, and 
Lepreau, The International Steamship Company and Shore Line Rail- 
way have united to give this trip. 

The Scenery on the St. Croix River and Shore Line Railway can- 
not be surpassed. 

Mountains, Cataracts, Lakes, Bays, and Islands are to be seen in 
all their natural beauty. 

July 3 to September ii, steamers leave St. John, daily, at 7.25 
(except Sunday), arriving at Eastport at 11.30, St. Andrews, 2.30, Calais 
and St. Stephen at 3.30. Express trains leave St. Stephen, daily, for 
St. John at 1.30 p.m. 

The trip can be made from St. John, outwards, by Shore Line Rail- 
way, leaving St. John East per Ferry at 7.14 a.m., only three hours to 
St. Stephen, and returning from St. Stephen by steamer. Tickets for 
the round trip, good for eight days, with liberty to stop off, only ;^2.5o. 



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VICTORIA HOTEL, 



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KING STREET, 
ST, JOHN, N. B. 



D, W. JUcCOMJlflOX, Proprietor. 



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THE 



DUFFERIN, 

ST. JOHN, N. B. 

HIS HOTEL IS VERY DESIRABLY LOCATED FACING 

KING'S SQUARE. 

HAS BEAUTIFUL GROUNDS CONNECTED, 
IS HANDSOMELY FURNISHED, AND 
LIBERALLY MANAGED. 



Cuisine and Sei^vice Ijnsuppassedc 



FRED. R. JONES, 

PROPRIETOR, 




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Royal >i^ Hotel, 



ST. JOHN, - - - N.B. 







King Street. 



T. F. RAYMOND, = 



= Proprietor. 



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NEW • ■ • • 

V ICTORIA T-q-QTEL, 

248, 2c:o and 252 Prince Wm. Street, 
Saint John, N.B. 



U. L. MCCOSKERY, PROPRIETOR. 



One Minute's Walk from Steamboat Landing. 



Q TREET CARS TO AND FROM R.R. STATIONS 

p ASS THIS HOUSE EVERY FIVE MINUTES . 



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THE 



Intercolonial 



OF 
CANADA, 






Railway, 



Many of the World's Fair Summer Resorts are on this Popular and Fashiona- 
able Route for Canadian and United States Summer Travel. 

The Intercolonial traverses for two hundred miles the south shore of the 
Majestic St. Lawrence, thence through the Famous Lake, Mountain, and Valle}' 
Region of the Metapedia and Restigouche Rivers, unequalled for their 



♦f- 



-MAGNIFICENT SCENERY,- 



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and along the beautiful and picturesque shores of the Baie des Chaleur and Gulf of 
St. Lawrence, and is the "scenic route " through Cape Breton. Tourists should be 
sure to include its famous resorts in their Summer tour. 



THE PEOPLE'S RAILWAY."- 



■■¥ 



Its equipment is of Standard excellence. Trains brilliantly lighted by electric- 
ity. Westinghouse Automatic Air Brakes. The short line between Quebec, St. 
John, Halifax, and Sydney. 

Fast express trains between Montreal, Quebec, St. John, Ilalifa.x and Sydney, 
C.B., making connections for points in Prince Edward Island. 



-A PERFECT TRAIN SERVICE. 



-^ 



No other route in America presents to Tourists, Pleasure-seekers, and Invalids 
so many unrivalled attractions. Pure air, splendid sea-bathing, and a perfect pano- 
rama of delightful views. 

Sportsmen will find the Rivers, Lakes, and Woods along the Intercolonial 
unequalled. 

^ SAFETY, SPEED, AND COMFORT. 4- 

Round-trip Tourist Tickets, Summer Excursion and Sea-Bathing Tickets, good 
for passage between the ist June and last of October, are for sale at all the principal 
Railway and Steamship agencies in Canada and the United States. 



Guide-books to the Intercolonial Railway, Maps, Hotel Lists, books of Sum- 
mer Tours, also Time-tables, can be had on application to City Agents, or to 

D. POTTINGER, GenI Hanager, JNO. M. LYONS, Gen'l Pass'r Agent, 

MONCTON, N.B. 



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THE 



MASON & HAMLIN PIANOS 

represent that same High Standard of excellence which 
has achieved a reputation for their Organs as the 




STANDARD OF THE WORLD. 



MASON S: HAMLIN ORGAN AND PIANO CO., 

154 & 155 Tremont Street, 

BOSTON. 

NEW YORK. KANSAS CITY. CHICAGO. 



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WORLD FAIR 
VISITORS 

SHOULD BEAR IN MIND 



THAT THE 



INTERNATIONAL LINE 



IS THE 



FAVORITE AND POPULAR SUMMER 
TOURIST ROUTE 



BETWEEN 



EASTERN MAINE, 

LOWER PROVINCES, 
PORTLAND, BOSTON 



AND THE 



SOUTH AND WEST, 



SIDE-WHEEL STEAMERS. 



DAILY SERVICE, EXCEPT SUNDAY. 

JULY 3d TO SEPTEMBER 11th. 

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YOUR especial attention is called to tlie complete list of 
Tourist Tickets, and tlie low rates at whioli tlie same 
are issued, to the principal points in Eastern Maine and 
the Provinces. See pages 89 to 95 inclusive. 



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